Author: Yūshin Ayaoka (有真綾岡).
Subject: A view of the Tōshōgu shrine (Tōshōgu Omitōshi, 東照宮御見透し).
Series: Nice views of Nikkō (Nikkō shōkei, 日光勝景).
Series number: 6.
Genre: meisho-e (名所絵), fūkei-ga (風景画).
Size: large (ōban, 大判).
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon (秋山武右衛門).
Period: c. 1892.
Trimmed: no
Backed: no
Code: YSA01001
Condition: very good condition. Color is still pretty clear and vivid with good saturation. There are not
remarkable
stains nor wrinkles. Any sign of fixing.
It is named Tōshōgu any temple built to honor the memory of Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康), the founder of the
Tokugawa shogunate
which lasted for almost three centuries (all the length of the Edo period, from1603 to 1868).
Ieyasu is enshrined in any of these Shrines, whose name comes from the title Tōshō Daigongen (東照大権現), "Great
manifestation of
the Buddha, Light of the East", which was bestowed to Ieyasu to after his death, deifying him.
The most renowned one is he Nikkō Tōshōgu followed by the Ueno Tōshōgu (in the Ueno park of Tōkyō), the
Kunōzan Tōshōgu in Shizuoka
and the Nagoya Tōshōgu, but it is told that there were almost five hundred Tōshōgu Shrine during the Edo
period, nowadays reduced to
130 of which 48 are recognized by the national Tōshōgu association.