The Kaminohashi Bridge in Fukagawa, Tokyo (Tôkyô Kaminohashi), from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai)

Kawase Hasui's view of the Kaminohashi Bridge in Fukagawa (Tōkyō Kaminohashi), from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tōkyō jūnidai), documents a waterway crossing in the eastern canal district of Tokyo. Fukagawa, historically defined by its dense network of moats and channels threading through low-lying reclaimed land, was one of the areas most severely affected by the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. Hasui's depictions of Fukagawa's canals and bridges thus carry an inadvertent documentary value—preserving the visual character of a neighborhood that was transformed by disaster and subsequent reconstruction. The Kaminohashi, an upper bridge on one of the district's waterways, likely appears in middle distance, with the canal's reflective surface carrying inverted images of the surrounding timber townhouses. The Twelve Scenes of Tokyo series, published by Watanabe Shōzaburō, provided Hasui with a focused opportunity to record the capital's interwar urban landscape before further modernization erased the older canal-town character of its eastern quarters.