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

and gust of wind

creating a calm

building a dense visual rhythm that rewards sustained attention and reads equally well at distance or close inspection

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