True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Suspension Bridge at Fukiage
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.
The Suspension Bridge at Fukiage — within the Imperial Palace grounds — represents one of the novelties of Meiji engineering imported into the most traditional of Japanese settings. The palace gardens contained several Western-style features introduced after the Meiji Restoration, and this suspension bridge embodied the era's enthusiasm for new engineering forms. Yasuji depicts the bridge with his characteristic documentary precision, treating this Western technical form with the same attentiveness he brought to the traditional wooden bridges of the old Edo waterways.
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: Suspension Bridge at Fukiage was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Suspension Bridge at Fukiage depicts landscapes and bridges, set at Tokyo.