True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Sendai Canal, Fukagawa
by Inoue Yasuji
Description
The Sendai Canal in Fukagawa carried goods from Tokyo Bay into the warehousing and processing districts of the eastern city, its working character defining one of the most industrially active neighborhoods in Meiji Tokyo. Yasuji depicts the canal with his characteristic attention to the infrastructure of working life, capturing the embankments, moored boats, and warehouse buildings that made Fukagawa the economic engine of the city's eastern waterfront. The print belongs to his sustained documentation of Tokyo's canal system as a functioning urban organism.
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Frequently Asked Questions
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Sendai Canal, Fukagawa was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
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