Nakahashi Bridge
Description
A bridge in the traditional Japanese townscape is both a practical structure and a compositional gift: the curve of its arc, the reflection in the water below, the way it frames the houses and landscape on either side. Nishijima renders Nakahashi Bridge with the structural precision that characterizes all his architectural work, but the bridge form also introduces movement into what might otherwise be a static composition — the implied crossing, the suggestion of journey, the bridge as threshold between two different portions of the town's life.
More Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima
More Bridges Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
Woodblock print
![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
Color woodblock print; oban
Shin Ohashi Bridge (Shin Ohashi), from the series "Twenty View of Tokyo (Tokyu nijukkei)"
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
Sacred Bridge in Nikko (Nikko Shinkyo)
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Frequently Asked Questions
Nakahashi Bridge was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
Nakahashi Bridge depicts bridges.