Author: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水).
Subject: Shiba Zōjō Shrine (Shiba Zōjōji, 芝増上寺).
Series: Twenty views of Tōkyō (Tōkyō nijūkkei, 東京二十景).
Genre: meisho-e (名所絵), fūkei-ga (風景画), shinhan-ga (新版画).
Size: Aiban (合判).
Publisher: Ōsaka mainichi shinbun (大阪毎日新聞).
Period: replica from 1934.
Trimmed: no
Backed: yes
Code: HKS01001

Condition: Very good condition with clear and vivid colors. No remarkable stains or wrinkles. No repairs have been made. It has been backed. It is almost 10% smaller in size than the original one from 1925.

A nice view of a woman walking by the left side of the Zōjōji shrine main gate, in Tōkyō, covering herself with a paper umbrella from the snow of a winter day.
The Zōjōji is affiliated with the Jōdō Shū (浄土宗), or pure land, Buddhist sect, being actually the main one in the Kantō region.
The temple had a strong connection with the Tokugawa family, a clan which had ruled Japan for the entire Edo period. Even six of the Tokugawa Shōgun have been buried in the temple mausoleum.
The main gate is called "sangedatsumon" (三解脱門) and it is considered to be the oldest wooden building in Tōkyō, dating back to 1622.
Nowadays you can see the Tōkyō tower rises from the back of the temple.
This print is not the original one from 1925, published by Watanabe Shōzaburō, key figure of the shin hanga movement which the print belongs to, but is a replica from 1934, woodlblock printed and published as only edition by the Ōsaka Mainichi Publishings Company as a magazine supplement.