Published 1887, Cherry Trees on Ueno belongs to Pictorial Descriptions of the Famous Places in Tokyo. This trilingual Tokyo guide presented the modern capital through notable sites and explanatory text. It helped reconcile the city’s temples, historic places, new institutions, and changing streets within an image legible to international visitors.
The title identifies the design’s particular figure, episode, object, or place, anchoring Gekkō’s composition in a larger network of historical narrative and cultural association. The catalog identifies flowers, landscape, river, tree, and women among the principal motifs. Gekkō uses their relationship to clarify action, season, setting, and narrative emphasis rather than treating them as interchangeable decoration.
As a book or album image, the composition was designed to be encountered in sequence and in relation to text, facing pages, and the physical act of turning leaves.
Additional information
| Publisher | Kyushundo, Tokyo |
|---|---|
| Size | Oban |
| Subjects | flowers, landscape, river, tree, women |
| Year Published | 1887 |
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