Procession to the Torinomachi festival in the rice fields of Asakusa by Hiroshige Landscape The composition draws the eye

The composition draws the eye directly to the subject

contemplative

centralised focus

glowing bouquet in which colour operates beyond botanical description and enters the realm of feeling

The composition operates on the principle that ornament and subject are one — figure

Procession to the Torinomachi festival in the rice fields of Asakusa by Hiroshige Landscape The composition draws the eyeProcession to the Torinomachi Festival in the Rice Fields of Asakusa captures a moment of seasonal ritual in Edo period Japan a winding procession moving through flooded rice paddies under an autumn sky. Hiroshige structures the scene around the strong diagonal of the path, which guides the eye from the lower foreground through the line of figures to the distant shrine torii just visible against the pale horizon. The reflections in the water fields