The Festival of the Cock Procession across the Asakusa Rice Fields (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode)

The celebrated master Hiroshige, one of the leading designers of landscape prints, was particularly skilled at conveying the season, weather and time of day. In this print a white cat, outlined in the kimedashi embossing technique, watches a procession from the windowsill of a tea house and represents the courtesan who has just finished her work.