Exploring Japanese Landmarks in Nishiki-e and Photographs

Tomioka

Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine

Constructed in 1627. The annual festival is called the "Fukugawa Hachiman Matsuri" or the "Fukagawa Matsuri" and is famous as one of Edo's 3 major festivals. Admission charged sumo wrestling was approved by the government in 1684, and the shrine is known as the origin of Edo admission charged sumo wrestling as sumo was performed here for over 100 years.

Nishiki-e and Paintings

〔江都名所〕

江戸名所深川八幡ノ社

新板浮絵富賀岡八幡宮之図

東都深川富ケ岡八幡宮境内全図

江戸名所深川八幡宮

深川八まん

〔江戸高名会亭尽〕　深川八幡境内

深川八まん牡丹

〔江戸高名会亭尽〕　深川八幡前

名所江戸百景　深川八まん山ひらき

Photos

東京景色写真版

旅の家つと第２９都の巻

東京風景

Other Materials

富岡八幡宮（本文）　『江戸名所図会 7巻』（1834）
富岡八幡宮（挿絵）　『江戸名所図会 7巻』（1834）
富岡八幡宮　其二（挿絵）　『江戸名所図会 7巻』（1834）
富岡八幡宮　其三（挿絵）　『江戸名所図会 7巻』（1834）

Sanjusangendo

Constructed in 1642 in Asakusa Matsubacho as a place of training for Japanese archery modelled on Kyoto's Sanjusangen-do Hall. Destroyed in a fire in 1698, it was reconstructed on the eastern side of the Tomioka Hachiman-gu Shrine in 1701. It is called Sanjusangen-do Hall because there are 33 ken (a unit of measurement) between the pillars in the front. Because the intervals between the pillars was 2 ken, the actual size of the hall was 66 ken (approximately 120 meters) north to south and 4 ken (approximately 7 meters) east to west. "Toshiya" archery was carried out shooting arrows from the south to north of the hall, and the hall prospered as one of Edo's meisho (famous places). The hall was demolished in 1872 as a result of the Haibutsu Kishaku (anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji Era).