Procession to the Torinomachi festival in the rice fields of Asakusa by Hiroshige Size:M - 50 x 70cm flat color

flat color

between movement and stillness

The portrait format focuses attention entirely on the figure

creating a calm

Procession to the Torinomachi festival in the rice fields of Asakusa by Hiroshige Size:M - 50 x 70cm flat colorProcession 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