Jūichijitsu Asakasa Tori no Machi (Festival for the Day of the Cock in 11th Month at Asakusa), Utagawa Hiroshige

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1797–1858
Jūichijitsu Asakasa Tori no Machi (Festival for the Day of the Cock in 11th Month at Asakusa), 1854, 4th month, Edo period (1600–1868)
Portfolio/Series title: Tōto Meisho Nenjū gyōji (Annual Events at Famous Places in the Eastern Capital)
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 336 x 225 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 1/4 x 8 7/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 355 x 235 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 0.9764 x 9 1/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial
Accession number: 1928.7683
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Exhibition Label: Installation related to "Tokyo: The Imperial Capital Woodblock prints by Koizumi Kishio, 1928-1940," Feb-2005, Hillary Pedersen This festival was held on the day of the rooster, an auspicious day according to the Chinese cosmological calendar. Decorated with gold coins and the full-cheeked face of a popular folk deity known for bringing good luck, symbolic rakes were used to bring in the good fortune that supposedly abounded during this festival. Held at temples all over Japan, the version held at Asakusa in Tokyo is still the largest and most well known. The five figures seen in the foreground watch the festival procession seen travelling across the center of the print.