Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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Komakata Hall and Azuma Bridge

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    • currently in research collection

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  • Hiroshige’s Views of Tokyo by Oliver Impey

    Hiroshige’s Views of Tokyo

    A cuckoo (hototogisu) near the Komakata Hall would instantly suggest to Hiroshige’s contemporaries the lament of loneliness at dawn, as in the famous poem by the courtesan Takao ‘Are you now, my love, near Komakata? Cry of the cuckoo’.

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