Artist: Kawanabe Kyosai
Title: Urashima - The Scenic Places of Tokaido
Date: 1863.
Details & Prices: Kawanabe Kyosai: Urashima - The Scenic Places of Tokaido - Artelino
Source:
artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
"Tokaido Meisho no Uchi" (The Scenic Places of Tokaido). This large series by different artists and publishers was made for the commemoration of shogun Tokugawa Iemochi's historic travel from Edo to Kyoto to pay respect to the emperor. Urashima Temple in Kanagawa prefecture. The legend of Urashima who visited the dragon king's palace for three years. After he returned to his home village, he found the hundred of years had been passed.
