東京名所三十六戯撰 海運はし
Kaiun Bridge, from Thirty-six Comic Views of Famous Places in Tokyo
Below a large building stacked with towers, people in yellow, light blue and brown kimono crowd together as if shoving one another. The sky on the right blurs into red toward the bottom.
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The foreground is packed with people. Figures in yellow, light blue, brown and navy kimono are jumbled together, some with their hands raised, some about to topple over. On the left is a white railing, and above it rises a large building with tier upon tier of towers. Along its lower level, things that look like red decorations are lined up.
In 1872, Mitsui-gumi put up a building at the foot of Kaiun Bridge, named in the title. At the government's request, Mitsui-gumi gave it up, and the next year, 1873, the First National Bank opened for business in that building.
Look closely at the tower at the upper left: white tiers and black tiers alternate, and a thin point sticks up from the small roof at the very top. Lift your eyes from the crowd and follow it all the way up to that tip.
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- Source title
- 『東京名所三十六戯撰』（1872年）
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- National Diet Library, Japan
- Why it's free to use
- Copyright expired (public domain)
- Original item
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- Made
- 154+ years ago
- Added to site
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