Author: Exhibition - Tokyo 1881. Utagawa Kunitoshi.
Title: [Dai Nikai Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai].
Description: Tokyo, Shimizu Kahei 1881 (Meiji 14). 38x26cm colour woodcut (a bit rumpled). ¶ A useful birds-eye view of the second national industrial exhibition, held in Ueno Park in 1881. It, despite hard times, quadrupled in size and almost doubled the attendance of the first, 1877, exhibition. Centre stage is the clock tower by Kaneda Ichibei.

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