"#47 Komagata Bridge & the steamship port"
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- The Art of Japan
- Image courtesy of
- The Art of Japan
Description
Number 47 in Koizumi's One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo series depicts Komagata Bridge, which spans the Sumida River near the Asakusa waterfront, with the steamship landing at Komagata Dock visible in the composition. As with all prints in this series, Koizumi designed, carved, and printed every block himself. The composition likely contrasts the arc of the bridge against the industrial activity of the port, where riverboats and steamships define early Showa commercial life on the Sumida. Koizumi frequently employed graduated bokashi in his sky and water passages to convey atmosphere and time of day. The pairing of a traditional bridge form with modern maritime infrastructure is characteristic of his interest in Tokyo in transition — a city simultaneously bound to its Edo-period waterway culture and expanding into industrial modernity.
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Frequently Asked Questions
"#47 Komagata Bridge & the steamship port" was created by Kishio Koizumi (小泉癸巳男).
"#47 Komagata Bridge & the steamship port" depicts landscapes.