One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival

Utagawa Hiroshige · Woodblock print, ink and colour on paper; vertical ōban · Edo period, 11th month of 1857 (Ansei 4) · Tokyo National Museum

A cat at a window looks out over the ricefields toward a festival procession far away.

Exhibition: Hiroshige: New Perspectives on Edo Japan — Tokyo National Museum · –