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Maker(s):Hiratsuka Un'ichi
Culture:Japanese (1895-1997)
Title:Sukiya Bridge (Sukiya-bashi) from '15 Scenes of Last Tokyo in Original Wood-cut' (Tokyo kaiko zue)
Date Made:1945 (Showa 20)
Type:Print
Materials:woodblock print
Measurements:Sheet: 7 7/8 in x 11 1/8 in; 20.0025 cm x 28.2575 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2008.63.11
Credit Line:Purchase with William K. Allison (Class of 1920) Memorial Fund
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
The first Sukiya Bridge was constructed over the outer moat of Edo Castle in 1629. The stone bridge depicted by Hiratsuka was constructed in 1929. When the first highway was constructed in Tokyo to prepare for the 1964 Summer Olympics, the moat was filled in and the bridge removed. Located just to the north of the Ginza, the area around Sukiya Bridge was one of the liveliest in the modern city. The headquarters of the Asahi Newspapers, where Kageyama Kōyō worked, is visible behind the bridge on the left. In front of the bridge, to the right, is the Taimei Elementary School, reconstructed in 1929 out of steel-reinforced concrete in the wake of the Great Kantō Earthquake and visited by the Emperor on his tour of the city 1930. It remains as a functioning school today.
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AC 2008.63.1-15
Uemura Masuo: Publisher (Nihon Hanga Kyokai)
15 Scenes of Last Tokyo in Original Wood-cut (Tokyo kaiko zue)
1945 (Showa 20)
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