Kiyomizu Hall and Shinobazu Pond at Ueno, No. 11 in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856

The Shinobazu is a pond center of the Ueno Park as the cherry blossoms below to the modern view of the building around the pond. It shows the clear daylight in the background you see a very familiar tree from another print. The print is called moon pie and shows in a quite similar in its shape a lens from far away capturing a small tree branch so significant from far away distance. The print is clear to show in a bird’s-eye view of capturing all the park in all its glory possibly referring to capturing the scenery in a photographic state a lens that only captures the true beauty the Shinobazu pond at Ueno.

Vanessa Carlos