Who created Tokiwa Bridge over the Su River?

Tokiwa Bridge over the Su River (常盤橋図) was created by Takahashi Yuichi (高橋由一) in c. 1881–1883.

What does Tokiwa Bridge over the Su River depict?

Tokiwa Bridge over the Su River depicts bridges.

Tokiwa Bridge over the Su River

常盤橋図

by Takahashi Yuichi

Bridges

Date:: c. 1881–1883
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Source:: Yamagata Prefectural Library, Yamagata

Description

Held in the Yamagata Prefectural Library, Tokiwa Bridge (常盤橋図, c. 1881–1883) is one of Takahashi Yuichi's principal architectural landscapes and a key painting in the body of Yamagata views that he produced under the patronage of Mishima Michitsune, the governor of Yamagata prefecture from 1876. Mishima — a vigorous moderniser who pushed an aggressive programme of road and bridge construction across northern Honshū — invited Yuichi to Tōhoku in 1880 to record the new public works of his administration, and the resulting series of oils and lithographs is one of the most documentary bodies of Meiji yōga.