Cotton-Goods Lane, Odenma-cho, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1858

Resource added March, 2022

Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858). Cotton-Goods Lane, Odenma-cho, No. 7 in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 4th month of 1858. Woodblock print, Image: 13 3/8 x 9 in. (34 x 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.7 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 30.1478.7_PS1.jpg)

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From the color print the “Cotton-goods Lane” it is shown that the merchants quarter that they are people seen within the building. Within a photography perspective to our left you see that two geisha woman both matched from there ensemble of there clothes and servant woman behind. The building of the merchants quarter. It is seen that that the boxlike structure (hakomune) that shows three symbols of different separate establishments are significant to a photography viewing lenses as repetition and including leading lines towards the main attraction which is the geisha lady’s.

Vanessa Carlos

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