Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran)
Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki on the Tōkaidō
Tōkaidō Okazaki Yahagi no hashi
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1834
What it is
A long procession crosses the Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki on the Tōkaidō, with banners and spears raised.
Why it matters
Hokusai fills the bridge end to end with marching figures, the road at its most crowded.
What to notice
The procession is a long row of small figures, and the spears and banners make a fringe along the bridge’s top.
Power on the road looks like a long, orderly line.
The record
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760–1849)
- Series
- Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran)
- Date
- c. 1834
- Medium
- woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art · JP1851
Impression note. A horizontal ōban, about 26 by 38 cm on the Met record. The bridges are drawn in fine, exact lines against broad fields of colour, and a clean impression keeps every plank and rail distinct. This is the largest clean open impression of the design the Met holds. Impression variance is real — printings differ in wiping and fading — and choosing the finest openly held impression is the curatorial act.
Public domain; faithfully reproduced.
Bring it home
Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm.
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