東京開化三十六景 永代橋の風情
The Charm of Eitai Bridge, from Thirty-six Views of Modern Tokyo
A heavy, dark green bridge cuts diagonally across the picture, from the left down to the lower right. This is the Eitai Bridge of the title, which spans the Sumida River.
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The sky fades from a purplish blue at the top to paler tones lower down, with a thin red band running across beneath it. Below the band, a boat with a white sail floats on the light blue water. People seem to be lined up on the bridge, and under its deck, many latticed supports stand in the water.
Eitai Bridge was built in the Edo period and has been rebuilt many times since. In 1897 it was rebuilt in iron and moved downstream to its present site. The current bridge was completed in December 1926, after the Great Kanto Earthquake, and is now designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan.
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- Source title
- 『東京開化三十六景』（1800年代）
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- National Diet Library, Japan
- Why it's free to use
- Copyright expired (public domain)
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- Made
- 120+ years ago (1800s)
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