Chapter 45 - Hashi-Hime - The Bride Maiden - 橋姫
by Ebina Masao
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
Description
"Hashi-Hime" (The Maiden of the Bridge) is Chapter 45 of The Tale of Genji, the opening of the celebrated Uji chapters in which Prince Kaoru discovers the daughters of Prince Hachi living in remote retirement at Uji on the Uji River. The "bridge maiden" of the title refers to the spirit believed to inhabit Uji Bridge, and to the eldest daughter Oigimi, as elusive and melancholy as a supernatural figure. Ebina's print captures the haunting atmosphere of the Uji setting — the mist on the river, the sense of a world apart from the capital, the quality of beauty tinged with sadness.
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Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
Woodblock print
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Shin Ohashi Bridge (Shin Ohashi), from the series "Twenty View of Tokyo (Tokyu nijukkei)"
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
Sacred Bridge in Nikko (Nikko Shinkyo)
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Frequently Asked Questions
Chapter 45 - Hashi-Hime - The Bride Maiden - 橋姫 was created by Ebina Masao (海老名正夫).
Chapter 45 - Hashi-Hime - The Bride Maiden - 橋姫 depicts bridges.