Sumida Park in Kototoi area of Mukôjima ward

Sumida Park stretches along the eastern bank of the Sumida River in Mukojima, with the Kototoi area near the historic Kototoi Bridge in northern Tokyo. The subject — a riverside park district of the modern capital — fits the program of One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo (Dai Tokyo Hyakkei, 1928–1940). Koizumi's treatment likely emphasizes the park's seasonal character, with cherry trees or autumn foliage carried by registered color blocks and the river surface handled through bokashi gradations. Mukojima had been celebrated for cherry-blossom viewing since the Edo period, and the print joins a continuing meisho tradition of the area while documenting its post-1923 reconstruction as a public park. Koizumi cut and printed every block himself, holding to the sosaku-hanga principle of artist as sole creator while drawing on subject matter rooted in earlier urban landscape traditions.