Plum Garden in Kameido from the Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo 名所江戸百景・亀戸梅屋舗めいしょえどひゃっけい かめいどうめやしき
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This print depicts beautiful plum blossoms behind the Kameido Tenjin Shrine in Edo (present-day Tokyo). As compared to the people in the background, the plum tree portrayed in the foreground is extremely big. This kind of enlarged close-up in depictions of scenery was characteristic of the artist Hiroshige (1797–1858).
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National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
The National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (NICH) comprise four National Museums (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and Kyushu National Museum) and two National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties), as well as the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) in Sakai City, for a total of seven institutions.
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March 30, 2026