Snow at Nikko's Yomeimon (Sun Gate) (Nikko Yomeimon no yuki (日光陽明門の雪))

Snow at Nikko's Yomeimon (Sun Gate) (Nikko Yomeimon no yuki (日光陽明門の雪))

This scene shows the Sun Gate (Yomeimon, 陽明門) at Nikko (日光) in the snow. Toshogu Shrine (Tōshōgū, 東照宮) is the final resting place of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate that ruled Japan for over 250 years until 1868. Ieyasu is enshrined at Toshogu as the deity Tosho Daigongen, "Great Deity of the East Shining Light".

Unsodo (芸艸堂). Block Cutter: N/A

1952 (Showa 27)

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print (medium), woodblock (technique), paper (material), 15 x 10 inches (dimensions)

Japanese

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