Kumanojunisha Shrine
by Georgia Clare
Title
Kumanojunisha Shrine
Artist
Georgia Clare
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
Tsunohazu kumano junisha zokusyo juniso (Kumanojunisha Shrine, popularly known as "Juniso"). Ukiyo-e print shows a pond ringed with trees and small raised structures that provide some shelter for tea or meditation, and larger buildings in the lower left, in a pastoral setting. Color woodcut after Ando Hiroshige. No. 50 in the series Meisho Yedo Hiakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), 1856.
In the late Edo period, the Kumano Junisha Shrine flourished by combining the appeals of powerful deities with a scenic site. Hiroshige depicts the broad expanse of Juniso Pond, fringed with veranda-like tea stalls and, to the lower left, a two-story restaurant. Trees, including a curiously barren willow, ring the pond. In the distance, beyond the yellow bands of mist, looms what is probably the outline of trees on the higher ground to the southwest. In the Meiji period (1868-1912), the pond thrived as an entertainment center and summer retreat, as it had in Hiroshige's time.
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December 4th, 2012
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