Kototoi at Sumida Park

A second view of the Kototoi district along Sumida Park, focused on the Kototoi Bridge or the named riverside locality from which it took its name. The bridge — a steel-trussed structure rebuilt after the 1923 earthquake — exemplifies the modern infrastructure that Koizumi incorporated alongside older religious sites in One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo. The composition would set the bridge or riverbank against the broader Sumida River, the water rendered with bokashi gradations and the structural members carried by precise keyblock cutting. The pairing with the previous Sumida Park view reflects Koizumi's serial method: returning to the same district from multiple vantages, in the meisho tradition of recording a named place across seasons and viewpoints. He designed, carved, and printed every block himself, sustaining the sosaku-hanga ideal across the entire production sequence.