Big French circus by Utagawa,Hiroshige Postcard

Big French circus on the grounds of Shokonsha (Yasukuni) shrine By Utagawa, Hiroshige. Shokonsha keidai Furansu okyokuba no zu Japanese triptych print shows circus at Yasukuni Jinja, originally called Shokonsha, Tokyo, Japan, with acrobats, trapeze artists, and horseback stunt riders. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858, sometimes called Ando Hiroshige) was the second of the two great masters of the Japanese landscape woodblock print, after Hokusai. He is particularly known for his scenes featuring snow and rain, which feauture in many of his best and most famous images, and which has led to his becoming know as "the artist of rain, snow and mist".