Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2011

As roads improved in the Edo era, it became common for people to travel great distances to locations with special spiritual resonance. This exhibition views such “Power Spots” through the eyes of some of the period’s greatest ukiyo-e artists. Among them are depictions of spiritual locations in Tokyo like Utagawa Hiroshige’s The Fudō Waterfall at Ōji from his “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” series, and others outside the capital such as Utagawa Kunisada’s psychedelic View of the Sunrise at Futami-ga-ura Bay and Katsushika Hokusai’s Climbing the Mountain from his definitive “Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji.”

Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art, until Sep 25 (listing).