Originally Posted by
Pickles
I actually had heard that. But did you know that the only Hiroshige print to feature a cat,
Asakusa Tambo Torinomachi, is a view from a prostitute's room in Asakusa? Smidgen owns a pristine 1854 print, his most cherished posession.
Ooh! That probably means it's the view from Yoshiwara. Thanks, I hadn't realised (I bought a modern copy of this print from the Edo museum for my sister-in-law). I'm currently fixated with Higuchi Ichiyo who wrote about this district just a generation or two later.