Open garden at Fukagawa Hachiman Shrine. People viewing the cherry and wisteria blossoms along the banks of a river at the Hachiman Shrine in Fukagawa. In Japan, cherry blossoms symbolize clouds due to their nature of blooming en masse, besides being an enduring metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life, an aspect of Japanese cultural tradition that is often associated with Buddhist influence, and which is embodied in the concept of mono no aware. The shrine was established in Fukagawa in 1627 with reclamation of a shoal. The God Hachiman, whom the shrine reveres, was also a local Shinto deity of the Minamoto clan, thus the shinto shrine received cordial protection by the Tokugawa shogunate. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is a series of ukiyo-e prints begun and largely completed by the Japanese artist Hiroshige. The prints were first published in serialized form in 1856 -59, with Hiroshige II completing the series after Hiroshige's death. Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857. | |
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