Author: Utagawa Hiroshige II (二代目広重).
Subject: Yushima Shrine (Yushima Tenjin, 湯島天神).
Series: Forty eight famous views of Edo (Edo meisho yonjū hakkei, 江戸名所四十八景).
Number: 8/48
Genre: meisho-e (名所絵), fūkei-ga (風景画).
Size: medium (chūban, 中判).
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizō (蔦屋吉蔵), here as Tsutakichihan (蔦吉版).
Period: 1860 ~ 1861.
Trimmed: yes
Backed: no
Code: UGHII01008

Condition: color is good and clear. Any remarkable stain or wrinkle on the front, few on the backside corner. Any remarkable hole nor damage. No fixing.

Currently set in the Chiyoda district (千代田区) of Tōkyō, during the Edo era when the city rose up as the center of the military power, with the founding of the Monzen block (monzenchō, 門前町) inside it Yushima became a residential area for lower rank vassals of the Shōgun (将軍).
Yushima Tenjin was revered and worshipped as the God of learning and study by any citizen, despite of theri rank or social status.
In the genroku (1688~1704) era a shrine dedicated to Confucius was moved in the area from Ueno (上野) and a Shogunate government authorized educational facility (the Shōheizaka gakumondokoro, 昌平坂学問所) was established too.

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