True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Makurabashi Bridge, Koume
by Inoue Yasuji
by Inoue Yasuji
$1,000–$8,000. Common views: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: Inoue's Meiji-era Tokyo views, influenced by his teacher Kiyochika, have both artistic and historical value. His early death makes works scarce.
Makurabashi Bridge at Koume crossed the Kyu-Nakagawa canal in the eastern Honjo district, its modest wooden structure typical of the many small river crossings that punctuated the waterway geography of lower Edo. Yasuji's treatment gives the bridge a quiet dignity, framing it carefully within its canal setting with the embankment and surrounding buildings providing compositional depth. The Koume district retained much of its working-class Edo character into the Meiji period, and Yasuji's view preserves this atmosphere with characteristic fidelity.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
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.
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Makurabashi Bridge, Koume was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Makurabashi Bridge, Koume depicts landscapes and bridges, set at Tokyo.