Suido Bridge and Surugadai (Suidobashi Surugadai), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

This oban-format nishiki-e from the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (c. 1857) depicts the Surugadai district of Edo with carp-shaped kite streamers (koinobori) filling the upper register. The koinobori, flown during the Boys' Festival in the fifth lunar month, are rendered in vivid pigments—crimson, black, and white—and dominate the pictorial space through an exaggerated close-up cropping device. Through the gaps between the streamers, the Kanda River, the Suido Bridge, and the tiled rooftops of Edo recede into a blue-grey distance. A single streamer curves across the upper edge of the composition, cropped by the picture boundary. This strategy of placing large-scale foreground objects against a receding landscape is characteristic of Hiroshige's late designs, compressing near and far elements into a single picture field and creating a visual rhythm between the decorative, pattern-like quality of the koinobori and the atmospheric depth of the cityscape below.