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One Hundred Famous Views of Edo · 10 / 21

Revelers Returned from the Tori no Machi Festival at Asakusa, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

名所江戸百景「浅草田甫酉の町詣」

  • Festival
  • Evening
Festival-goers heading home through Tanbo fields at Asakusa dusk — Revelers Returned from the Tori no Machi Festival at Asakusa, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).
Utagawa Hiroshige. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).

After the cock-day market festival, crowds drift homeward through Tanbo. Evening and festival tags merge celebration’s afterglow with suburban quiet.

Evening plus festival tags — warm sky meets lantern-less dusk movement.

Follow figure streams that link Edo center to outer fields.

Compare festive return here with solitary dawn departure at Shinagawa.

Extended Japanese viewing notes: 名所江戸百景「浅草田甫酉の町詣」.

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