The full moon at Uji Bridge

A view of the bridge at Uji — south of Kyoto, among the oldest documented bridges in Japan and a site with long-standing literary and visual associations through the Genji monogatari and the Hyakunin Isshu — under a full moon. Uji Bridge is a classic meisho subject, treated by [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) designers from Hokusai and Hiroshige onward, and the moonlit register places the print in the tsukimi tradition of autumn moon viewing. A composition of this type generally uses the bridge as a horizontal anchor across the middle band of the sheet, with the moon set high in a gradated indigo or grey sky carried by [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi), and the river surface registered as a flat band of darker ink. Mokuhanga production would carry the bridge structure through the keyblock and use a restrained palette of indigo, grey, and black for the night atmosphere. Within Kamei's wider output, an Uji Bridge moonlight scene fits squarely within the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) landscape and [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) register that defined his career.