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29th May 2025

 

Hiroshige's popularity is still huge in Japan, and his designs appear on many items, including tenugi (hand towels), magnets, and tiny gacha capsule toys. The restaurants of the leading conveyor-belt sushi chain, Kura, feature a huge print of his woodblock triptych “Amusements While Waiting for the Moon on the Night of the Twenty-sixth in Takanawa, a Famous Place in the Eastern Capital” (early 1840s, in the British Museum collection) in which the townspeople of the Edo Period are enjoying sushi as fast food. This is the branch in Asakusa,Tokyo. [There are currently exhibitions of Japanese woodblock prints at The Whitworth and at York Art Gallery, and there will be one at Dulwich later in the year.]

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