Year: 2022 Medium: Pigmented ink on silver paper Dimension: 30.9 x 21.6 x 0.3 cm / 12.2 x 8.5 x 0.1 in Edition: 8 (6 remaining) Signature: Hand-signed by artist, back This work includes a certificate of authenticity, and black frame. Inspired by Hiroshige Utagawa The title means "Kudanzaka (from) Ichigaya (around the station) (facing)". With the theme of the road on the left side of Yasukuni Shrine (Yasukuni Dori) on the anniversary of the end of the war, the out-of-season cherry blossoms are filled with condolences to the scattered ancestors. The zero battle on the upper left is a little out of the frame, but we basically set the inside of the frame as this world and the outside of the frame as the everlasting world, and this zero battle is drawn as a kind of spiritual existence. increase. By adding the snow mark in the distant view, it suggests a transcendental mystery. Yasukuni Shrine was built for the war dead of the Boshin War, so it did not exist in the Hiroshige era. Therefore, the first generation of Hiroshige did not draw it, but the third generation of Hiroshige preferred to do so. For example, "Yasukuni Shrine on Kudanzaka". 終戦記念日の靖国神社の左側道路（靖国通り）を主題に、季節外れの桜は散っていった先人への哀悼を込めて制作されました。左上の零戦が枠の外に少し出ているのは、枠の内を現世、枠の外を常世と設定し、この零戦はある種、心霊的な存在として描かれています。遠景の雪印マークは、季節を超越した幽玄を示唆しています。 靖国神社は戊辰戦争の戦没者のために創建されたので、広重の時代にはありませんでした。その為、初代 広重は靖国を描いていませんが、三代 広重は「九段坂上靖国神社」など、好んで描いています。