Ocha-No-Mizu, Tokyo

Ochanomizu, a district in central Tokyo where the Kanda River was channeled into a narrow gorge during the Edo period, appears here as one of the city's distinctive urban waterway scenes. By the Taisho era, the site was marked by stone embankments, arched railway bridges, and the elevated tracks of the Chuo line—a collision of old topography and modern infrastructure that Hasui rendered without editorial comment. The composition likely positions the viewer along the embankment or on a bridge, looking along the canal toward the railway viaduct, with the cut stone walls descending to the water below. Bokashi in the sky and water surfaces unifies the scene's tonal range. This print may represent an earlier or variant impression of the Ochanomizu subject relative to the editions published under specific series titles.