1856, Utagawa Hiroshige, View from Asuka Hill -- British Museum (London)
From the museum label: Families and friends enjoy the open air at Asuka Hill, one of Edo's famous spots for viewing cherry blossoms and a favourite day-trip destination. The combination of viewpoints, typical of East Asian landscape painting, may have seemed unexpectedly traditional to Hiroshige's contemporaries. The eye looks down to the picnics, across to the rice fields, and up to the far-distant twin peaks of Mount Tsukuba.
1856, Utagawa Hiroshige, View from Asuka Hill -- British Museum (London)
From the museum label: Families and friends enjoy the open air at Asuka Hill, one of Edo's famous spots for viewing cherry blossoms and a favourite day-trip destination. The combination of viewpoints, typical of East Asian landscape painting, may have seemed unexpectedly traditional to Hiroshige's contemporaries. The eye looks down to the picnics, across to the rice fields, and up to the far-distant twin peaks of Mount Tsukuba.