The Kameido Tenjin Shrine

Catalog note / 解説

The Kameido Tenjin Shrine, visible to the upper right of this <i>uchiwa-e</i> (rigid fan print) design by Hiroshige, lay in the north-east part of the Honjo district across the Yokojukkengawa Canal from the similarly well-known Myoken Hall and Honshoji Temple complex. It was built in the early 1660s as part of the development of the area to the east of Sumida river, begun after the devastation of the central part of Edo by the Meireki fire of 1657. It was, and is, famous for its purple-flowering wisteria and its <i>taikobashi</i>, or drum bridge. The view here is of wisteria trellises along the east shore of the pond in the centre of the shrine grounds. The signs on the trellis supports rea…