Evening Cherry Blossom in Yoshiwara
£15.00
Artist: Hiroshige, Utagawa (1797-1858)
Title: Evening Cherry Blossom in Yoshiwara
Series: Views of Edo
Japanese Series: Edo meisho
Date: Edo Period
The licensed pleasure quarters to the north of Edo were known as the Yoshiwara. Each year when the cherry blossoms (sakura) bloom, the Japanese celebrate life and death in a festival known as ‘hanami’. Here, courtesans and attendants enjoy the sight along the ‘Nakanomachi’, the main road through the Yoshiwara, by moonlight.
