Okurabashi Bridge in Honjo — 本所御蔵橋

Okurabashi Bridge spans one of the canal waterways threading through the Honjo district on the east bank of the Sumida River — the neighborhood where Kiyochika was born in 1847. The title includes the Japanese (本所御蔵橋), with "okura" referring to government rice storehouses that once lined these canals, a remnant of the Tokugawa-era logistics infrastructure. Kiyochika's treatment of the bridge and its surrounding canal environment likely emphasizes light on water and the geometry of wooden bridge construction set against a broad sky. Flat-bottomed cargo boats and canal-side warehouses would establish the working-class character of Honjo. The print's atmosphere is likely rendered through graduated bokashi across the sky and horizontal reflections across the still canal surface. As a record of Kiyochika's own childhood district, now being transformed by Meiji development, this print carries the documentary weight of personal memory alongside its formal interest in industrial and vernacular waterway architecture.