Kasamatsu Shiro 笠松紫浪
Japanese, 1898–1991
Blooming Cherry at Toshogu Shrine
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Kasamatsu Shiro 笠松紫浪
Japanese, 1898–19911935
Blooming Cherry at Toshogu Shrine
Kasamatsu Shiro 笠松紫浪 Japanese, 1898–1991 →Japanese (culture or style)woodblock printprint
Date
1935
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
36.5 × 24.2 cm (14 3/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.
Here, Kasamatsu Shirō showed cherry trees at the peak of their bloom in Ueno Park. The park is still the prime location for cherry blossom viewing in Tokyo today. Kasamatsu specialized in nostalgic, seasonal images of famous locations; Blooming Cherry at Tōshōgū Shrine is one of his most celebrated prints. Most of his early prints were destroyed in the great Kantō earthquake of 1923, but his output after that incident and later in life was prolific.
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