Honjyo Ichinohashi from Hamacho River Bank — 濱丁川岸ヨリ本所一ノ橋

Honjo Ichinohashi from Hamacho River Bank is a Tokyo cityscape by Inoue Yasuji that frames the First Bridge (Ichinohashi) of the Honjo district from a vantage on the opposite bank at Hamacho. The view belongs to Inoue Yasuji's broader Tokyo Famous Places project, in which Meiji prints repeatedly reimagined the meisho tradition by lingering on canal mouths, modest bridges, and dockside neighborhoods rather than on the grand monumental sites favored by earlier ukiyo-e. Inoue Yasuji studied under Kobayashi Kiyochika and is firmly identified with the kosen-ga style, and the print's atmospheric vocabulary is characteristic: a low riverside foreground laid in with restrained color, a midground bridge whose timbers and lanterns are picked out in disciplined keyblock, and a sky carrying a single broad bokashi gradient. Small figures crossing the bridge and tending boats supply the human scale without disrupting the geometry. Honjo, on the east bank of the Sumida, was a working-class district whose canals and lumber yards anchored Tokyo's industrial fabric, and giving it the same documentary attention as central Asakusa or Nihonbashi is part of what makes Inoue Yasuji's Tokyo Famous Places designs historically valuable. The ukiyo-e.org archive preserves this impression as a stable reference for ongoing study of Inoue Yasuji's role in late nineteenth-century cityscape printing.