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| Keywords: Fireworks at Ryogoku (Ryogoku Hanabi), No. 98 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.jpg Uploaded with en wp UW marker 2014 04 14 During summer and early fall the Sumida River was the scene of a custom known as taking in the cool of the evening Activity centered at Ryōgoku Bridge where an endless variety of entertainment was offered on both land and water The ideal place was not in the crowded stalls of the bridgehead plazas but rather in one of the nearby restaurants or in an individually chartered pleasure boat on the river Fireworks were an indispensable feature of evenings on the river By the mid-seventeenth century they were so popular that the threat of fire led authorities to issue decrees restricting their use to the Sumida River http //www brooklynmuseum org/opencollection/objects/121712/Fireworks_at_Ryogoku_Ryogoku_Hanabi_No _98_from_One_Hundred_Famous_Views_of_Edo/set/4bfc51dae0527ab986a16e237f736690 referring-q china 8th month of 1858 Utagawa Hiroshige Ando Japanese 1797-1858 PD-Old-100 Fireworks in art | ||||
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