Horikiri
A marshy area where a branch of the Ayase-gawa River flows, it is perfect for cultivation of the Japanese iris. At the beginning of the 19th century, the farmer Iza'emon began cultivation of the Japanese iris, and at the end of the Edo Period, a wide variety of iris plants thrived and bloomed here. This created iris gardens which many of the people of Edo came to see.
Nishiki-e and Paintings
名所江戸百景 堀切の花菖蒲
堀きり花菖蒲
堀切花菖蒲
Photos
東京景色写真版
東京景色写真版
旅の家つと 第２９ 都の巻
日本之勝景 : 一名・帝国美観
仁山智水帖
日本之勝観
東京風景
Landmarks around Horikiri
Suijin no Mori Sumidazutsumi Mukojima Hyakkaen Massaki Akiba Daigongen no Yashiro Shrine Yatsukoji Hashiba / Imado Senju Sumida-gawa River Nihonzutsumi
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