Procession to the Torinomachi festival in the rice fields of Asakusa by Hiroshige Size:M - 50 x 70cm and a depth of colour

and a depth of colour that remains vivid more than a century after its creation

and gust of wind

The portrait format focuses attention entirely on the figure

and sage gives the work an intimate warmth that his commercial poster work rarely sacrificed

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Procession to the Torinomachi festival in the rice fields of Asakusa by Hiroshige Size:M - 50 x 70cm and a depth of colourProcession to the Torinomachi Festival in the Rice Fields of Asakusa captures a moment of seasonal ritual in Edo period Japan a winding procession moving through flooded rice paddies under an autumn sky. Hiroshige structures the scene around the strong diagonal of the path, which guides the eye from the lower foreground through the line of figures to the distant shrine torii just visible against the pale horizon. The reflections in the water fields