Evening Bells BUT at Kanazawa

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Evening Bells is a popular theme in Japanese art especially landscape prints due to the well known EIGHT VIEWS THEME. It was so popular that ukiyo-e print artists did series of views from other areas that were not Edo or Lake Biwa.

The temple and bells are implied rather than depicted with the artist invoking an evening view of boats and a village near or perhaps the outskirts of Kanazawa and temples suggested by roofs just showing as mists form on the hillsides above.

Notice how few colors and tones there are blue and a gradient thereof, a black gray gradient,  two greens, and some browns.