Blossoming Cherry Trees in Ueno Park (Ueno kōen kaika zu)
Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu Japanese
Not on view
From the late 1880s and 1890s, prints depicting the imperial couple on outings and attending other public events often had a conspicuous didactic function. They portrayed the emperor and empress as heads of a model nuclear family and aimed to show that the couple promoted the industrialization of Japan. Here, they enjoy the traditional pastime of viewing cherry blossoms in Ueno Park, which opened to the public in 1876 in the quickly evolving modern city of Tokyo.
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