The Hyappongui — a cluster of wooden pilings at the Ryōgoku waterfront used as current-breaks and debris-catchers in the Sumida River — is shown at sunrise in this 1879 nishiki-e from the Meiji 12 period. Early morning light at the Ryōgoku piling field was a subject Kiyochika returned to across his Tokyo career, the geometric regularity of the pilings and their reflections in the still morning water providing a compositional structure that the horizontal sunrise light could transform into something architecturally elegant.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sunrise at Hyappongui, Ryōgoku, Tokyo was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親) in 1879 (Meiji 12).
Sunrise at Hyappongui, Ryōgoku, Tokyo depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and rivers & lakes, set at Tokyo.
Sunrise at Hyappongui, Ryōgoku, Tokyo measures 25.1 × 36.5 cm (Oban format).
