131003-0055.1-OS - Summer Festival

A banner and mikoshi, a portable Shinto shrine, during the Sumiyoshi Matsuri, a summer festival at Tsukudajima island in Edo (current Tokyo), 1857 (Ansei 4). Several boats are anchored in Edo Bay.

This woodblock print is image 55 in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (名所江戸百景, Meisho Edo Hyakkei), a series created by ukiyoe artist Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重, 1797–1858).

It is one of 30 summer scenes in the series.

Title: The Sumiyoshi Matsuri at Tsukudajima (佃しま住吉の祭, Tsukudajima Sumiyoshi no matsuri)

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