Utagwa Kunisada (1786-1864) | The Tenman Shrine at Kameido (Kameido Tenjingu) | Edo period, 19th century

This series of landscape prints uses European perspective and shading, combined with conventional ukiyo-e style figures. Even the signatures are spelled out phonetically and written sideways in imitation of European writing and each print has an elaborate border imitating imported embossed leather. See Sebastian Izzard, Kunisada’s World, (New York, 1993), p. 96-7.

For further examples of prints in this series are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession numbers RES.49.87 and 11.16012, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/328314

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/208568