橋梁の近代美に昔も夢の兩國橋
The Modern Beauty of Bridges: Ryogoku Bridge, Its Past Now a Dream
The lights along the bridge are mirrored in the river, trailing down in white vertical streaks. Ryogoku Bridge, which spans the Sumida River, runs across a dark picture tinted all over in blue-green.
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The black silhouette of a bridge stretches from side to side across the middle of the blue-green picture. Lights are dotted along the top of the bridge, and their glow, reflected in the river below, forms several white vertical streaks. Roughly the top half is dark sky.
The title reads "橋梁の近代美に昔も夢の兩國橋," or "The Modern Beauty of Bridges: Ryogoku Bridge, Its Past Now a Dream." The bridge crosses the Sumida River, and in the Genroku years of the Edo period it was known as Ohashi, the "Great Bridge."
At the far right, a single bright, round light sits atop the black silhouette. Directly below it, another white streak runs down the water, set a little apart from the others.
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- 『大東京寫眞帖』（1930年3月）
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- National Diet Library, Japan
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- Copyright expired (public domain)
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- 96+ years ago
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