Nakahashi Bridge
Typical Price
$1,000–$6,000. Common subjects: $1,000–$2,000. Key value factors: Nishijima's nostalgic Japanese village scenes appeal to collectors worldwide. Limited editions maintain value well.
$1,000–$6,000. Common subjects: $1,000–$2,000. Key value factors: Nishijima's nostalgic Japanese village scenes appeal to collectors worldwide. Limited editions maintain value well.
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.
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)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Nakahashi Bridge was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
Nakahashi Bridge depicts bridges.
