東京開化三十六景 第一國立銀行
The First National Bank, from Thirty-six Views of Modern Tokyo
With tier upon tier of green roofs and a round, many-windowed tower on top, the building rises to fill the whole picture. To the left, a cloud-like wash of red spreads across the sky.
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Along the lowest tier runs a row of red ornaments like round windows. Above them, white-edged roofs stack up in triangles, and higher still, on the tower's level, slender decorative columns stand. Halfway up on the left rises a single cross-shaped post, and in the sky above the tower floats a red shape that spreads out in rays.
The building was finished in 1872. The Mitsui firm (Mitsui-gumi) built it for a bank of its own, but under strong pressure from the government it was handed over to the First National Bank, which opened for business here in 1873. Thirty-six Views of Modern Tokyo (Tokyo Kaika Sanjurokkei) is a print series about Meiji-era Tokyo, and this sheet is one of its prints.
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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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