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Maker(s):Fukazawa Sakuichi
Culture:Japanese (1896-1946)
Title:Distant View of Nikolai Cathedral (Nikkorai enbo) from 'One Hundred Views of Modern Tokyo: Sosaku hanga (Shin Tokyo Hyakkei: sosaku hanga), first set, no.25
Date Made:September 29, 1929 (Showa 4)
Type:Print
Materials:woodblock print
Measurements:Sheet: 8 1/8 in x 10 5/8 in; 20.6375 cm x 26.9875 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2008.57
Credit Line:Purchase with Wise Fund for Fine Arts
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Nikolai Cathedral is the popular name for the headquarters of the Japanese Orthodox Church, constructed in 1891 in the Kanda district. The dome was badly damaged in the earthquake but was rebuilt by 1929. The cathedral was one of the meisho of the modern city. Today it is obscured by high-rise buildings. In a somewhat imaginative composition, Fukazawa depicts it from the east, along with the new concrete bridges over the Kanda River. The train in the foreground is on the Yamanote Line, the loop line around the city, which became fully operational in 1925.

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