Kawase Hasui

At home I have two woodcut prints from Kawase Hasui (1883-1957). You can see both of them on this page.

Yesterday I already was at the Ueno Toshogu shrine, and made the following picture. The small structure in the front is not on the print, but you can see the shrine roof between the trees, and the top of the pagoda in the back.



Today I went looking for the Honmonji Temple in Ikegami. This neighborhood now is part of Tokyo, and can be reached using the Toei Asakusa line (last stop, Nishi-magome). The temple is about a 10 min. walk from the subway station. The scenery obviously has changed in the last 80 years, but you can still clearly see what Hasui has drawn:



The surroundings of the temple are beautiful, with a lot of cherry blossom here as well.