No. 39, Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannen-bashi), from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo
江戸名所道化尽 三十九 深川万年橋
- Date:
- 1860
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print (nishiki-e)
江戸名所道化尽 三十九 深川万年橋
Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannen-bashi), number 39 in Utagawa Hirokage's Edo meisho dōke zukushi ('Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo'), is a vertical ōban color woodblock print published in 1860 by Tsujiokaya Bunsuke. The print depicts the Mannen Bridge over the Onagigawa canal in the Fukagawa district east of the Sumida River, a site immortalized by Hokusai's earlier 'Fuji Seen Below Mannen Bridge' from the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Hirokage's treatment reframes Hokusai's serene composition as a slapstick scene: where Hokusai's print had used the bridge's arch to frame a distant view of Mount Fuji glimpsed across the bay, Hirokage substitutes a barque and fishing nets and stages the action as a comic mishap on the bridge itself. The substitution is characteristic of the series, which systematically takes well-known [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) (famous-place picture) compositions and reanimates them with the falling porters, gusts of wind, and pratfalls of late-Edo comic theater. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston holds an impression of this sheet (object 537071, William Sturgis Bigelow Collection), part of a substantial American holding of the dōke zukushi assembled in the early twentieth century during the great age of Bostonian collecting of Japanese woodblock prints.
江戸名所道化尽 二 両国の夕立
1859
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e)
両国の虎 — 廣景眞景之内
8th month, 1860
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e)
不忍の池 — 江戸名所道化尽
1859
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e)
江戸名所道化尽 十七 通一丁目祇園会
1859
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e)
Woodblock print
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No. 39, Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannen-bashi), from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo (江戸名所道化尽 三十九 深川万年橋) was created by Utagawa Hirokage (歌川広景) in 1860.
No. 39, Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannen-bashi), from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo depicts bridges.