Asakusa rice fields during the Festival of the Cock, by Utagawa Hiroshige

An image of Asakusa rice fields during the Festival of the Cock (Asakusa tambo torinomachi môde). Hiroshige, Utagawa (Japanese, 1797-1858). Colour print from woodblocks. Ôban format. Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Uoei). 1857. Notes: No. 101 in the series 'One hundred famous views of Edo' (Meisho Edo hyakkei), in the section for Winter. Through an opened upstairs window of a Yoshiwara brothel the distant Torinomachi procession can be seen winding its way to the Washi Daimyôjin Shrine.

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Asakusa rice fields during the Festival of the Cock (Asakusa tambo torinomachi môde). Hiroshige, Utagawa (Japanese, 1797-1858). Colour print from woodblocks. Ôban format. Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Uoei). 1857. Notes: No. 101 in the series 'One hundred famous views of Edo' (Meisho Edo hyakkei), in the section for Winter. Through an opened upstairs window of a Yoshiwara brothel the distant Torinomachi procession can be seen winding its way to the Washi Daimyôjin Shrine.

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Accession Number: P.3578-R
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 712 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 803.23kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2013:08:16 11:33:18

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