Kintai bridge
by Saito Kaoru
- Medium:
- Etching
- Image courtesy of
- Saru Gallery
Description
A multi-arched stone bridge with white wooden railings spans a river, its repeated humped arches supported on pale stone piers rising from dark blue water streaked with turquoise and green reflections. Overhanging red maple leaves fill the upper left corner while a dense, multicolored mass of foliage in pink, red, and green tones fills the sky at right, set against a deep indigo-purple background. The print is pencil-signed and numbered in the lower margin below the image, with Japanese characters and "'95" inscribed at bottom center.
More Prints by Saito Kaoru
More Bridges Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
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![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1947
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Shin Ohashi Bridge (Shin Ohashi), from the series "Twenty View of Tokyo (Tokyu nijukkei)"
1926
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Sacred Bridge in Nikko (Nikko Shinkyo)
1930
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Kintai bridge was created by Saito Kaoru (斎藤薫).
Kintai bridge depicts bridges.