Scenes of Fire Fighting in Edo-4, handscroll

This is a 13-meter-long picture scroll depicting firefighters in Edo, the former name of Tokyo, without narration.
The picture was painted by Umezawa Seiga, an official painter of the Yanagawa domain.
Although many similar picture scrolls remain today, this scroll portrays individual firefighters in a comparatively accurate manner. Each figure is vividly depicted in various situations through the scenes which develop one after another. From these, this work is not only fine art but also valuable material for the study of history.