東京名所三十六戯撰 両國花火
Ryogoku Fireworks, from Thirty-six Comic Views of Famous Places in Tokyo
On a night river showered with sparks from fireworks, a woman in a patterned white kimono stands upright on a boat. In the boat beside hers, someone has toppled over.
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Fireworks burst at the upper left of the dark night sky. Beneath them, a big wooden bridge on thick piers climbs at a slant from left to upper right. Two boats float on the river in front, and in the right one stands a woman in a white kimono with a pattern. In the left boat someone has toppled over, and the water around churns white.
The big bridge is not named, but the plate at the upper right gives the title, "両國花火" (Ryogoku Fireworks). Ryogoku is where Ryogoku Bridge crosses the Sumida River. In the Genroku years of the Edo period, people called it the "Ohashi" (Great Bridge).
Look closely at the fireworks at the upper left: the sparks cluster as fine dots, and a few of them trickle away, dot by dot, as far as the middle of the sky.
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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)
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- Made
- 154+ years ago
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