True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: View of Yorozuyobashi Bridge in the Rain
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.
Yorozuyobashi Bridge in the rain — the crossing at a busy commercial intersection in the heart of the lower city — is captured here with the atmospheric sensitivity to weather that characterizes some of Yasuji's most evocative compositions. Rain transforms the ordinary urban scene, the wet pavement reflecting the bridge and surrounding buildings, pedestrians sheltering under umbrellas, the whole familiar geography of the city becoming strange and beautiful under precipitation. Yasuji renders the rain scene with his characteristic observational honesty, the weather documented rather than dramatized.
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: View of Yorozuyobashi Bridge in the Rain was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: View of Yorozuyobashi Bridge in the Rain depicts landscapes, bridges, and rain, set at Tokyo.