Asakusa (1890s)
Asakusa Park at Tokyo. The symbol of the district, actually the symbol of all of Tokyo, was Ryounkaku, Japan's very first skyscraper, better known as Junikai, or Twelve Stories. This image was published in 1895 (Meiji 28) by Kazumasa Ogawa in Scenes of the Eastern Capital of Japan. Meiji 1890s