Rain at Shin Ohashi Bridge, Tokyo — 東京新大橋雨中図

This second composition depicting Shin Ohashi Bridge in rain suggests Kiyochika treated the subject as a sustained study rather than a single resolved view, exploring variations in vantage point, time of day, or season. The Shin Ohashi, completed in 1874 as one of Tokyo's first iron bridges, held particular symbolic weight in his practice as a marker of technological change along the Sumida River. Where the first version may take a distant panoramic view, this variant may shift to a closer perspective — perhaps from water level looking up at the bridge span against a rain-heavy sky, or from a different bank emphasizing the reflective surface of the river during the downpour. The print's handling of the metal bridge structure through woodblock conventions is itself noteworthy: the straight-ruled lines necessary to suggest iron girders contrast with the organic movement of falling rain and stirred water, generating a productive tension between the modern and the atmospheric.