Kameido Bridge is one of Yoshida's most historically significant Tokyo subjects, limited to 75 impressions and part of the Twelve Scenes of Tokyo series. The bridge — a classical wooden span over the Kameido Tenjin Shrine pond — was a beloved Edo-period motif revived by Yoshida with shin-hanga technique. Limited-impression prints from this series command premiums at major auction houses.
Kameido, in eastern Tokyo, was home to one of the city's most beloved plum and wisteria gardens, and its bridge over the Kameido Tenjin Shrine's pond provided Yoshida with a composition of elegant simplicity in this 1927 print. The arched drum bridge (taiko-bashi) reflected in the pond below creates a near-perfect circle — a compositional form with deep resonance in Japanese aesthetics — while the surrounding landscape suggests the season through foliage or flowering plants. Yoshida's Tokyo series gave him license to treat the modern city's surviving traditional spaces with the same reverence he brought to rural landscapes, finding in Kameido's bridge and pond a geometry that transcended its urban setting.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kameido Bridge, Tokyo was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1927.
Kameido Bridge, Tokyo uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
Kameido Bridge, Tokyo was published by Yoshida Studio (1927).
Kameido Bridge, Tokyo depicts landscapes and bridges, set at Tokyo.
Kameido Bridge, Tokyo measures 27.2 × 40.7 cm (Oban format).
