Senju no oubashi – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Senju no oubashi, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Senju Great Bridge crosses the Sumida River at the northeastern edge of Edo, where the road toward Nikkō began its climb into the countryside. Hiroshige designed this vertical color woodblock print in 1856 for *One Hundred Famous Views of Edo*, one of his last major landscape series. He died two years later, in 1858. Notice how the bridge's long diagonal cuts across the river and how the small travelers on it turn a simple crossing into a scene of everyday journey.
| Created / published | 1856 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 35.7 x 24.5 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : One hundred famous views of Edo. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Forms part of: Visual materials from Donald D. Walker collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 14, p. 33. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Bridges--Japan--1850-1860. Rivers--Japan--1850-1860. Sumida River (Japan)--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,645 × 4,522 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221874 |
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