釧路幣舞橋
Nusamai Bridge, Kushiro
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This photo shows Nusamai Bridge over the Kushiro River in Kushiro, Hokkaido. It appears in Kaido Gojunen Kinen Hokkaido Takushoku Shashincho (Photo Album of Hokkaido Settlement, for the 50th Anniversary of Its Opening), published in 1918 (Taisho 7).
The first bridge here was Aihoku Bridge, a wooden bridge built by a private company in 1889 (Meiji 22). Drift ice and floods damaged it again and again, and each time it was replaced with another wooden bridge, until it became a reinforced concrete bridge in 1928. The photo's title does not tell us which version of the bridge this is. The name comes from the Ainu words nusa o mai, "the place with an altar for offerings."
The present bridge, built in 1976, is the fifth, and on it stand the Four Seasons statues by four sculptors. Together with Toyohira Bridge in Sapporo and Asahi Bridge in Asahikawa, it has long been counted among the three great bridges of Hokkaido.
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- 『開道五十年記念北海道拓殖写真帖』（大正7年）
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