Selected from the Portland Art Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores Japan’s journey with and through nature during the 19th century and into the modern age through the lens of landscape prints, revealing the at once reverential and playful spirit in which people held the trees, mountains, and rivers around them. Shown below are prints featuring bridges.
Shown above is Shower at New Willow Bridge, Rainbow at Otakekura from Picture Book of Both Banks of the Sumida River at a Glance, ca. 1804/1806, by Katushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Color woodblock print on paper.
Shown above is View of Nihonbashi Bridge from Edobashi Bridge from the series One Hundred Views of Musashi Province,1884, by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915). Color woodblock print on paper.
Shown above is Kintaikyō Bridge, Suō from the series Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series,1924, by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957). Color woodblock print on paper.
Detail from Kintaikyō Bridge, Suō
Shown above is Yoshida, Great Bridge on the Toyo River from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-Three Stations, 1855, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). Color woodblock print on paper.
Detail from Yoshida, Great Bridge on the Toyo River
Shown above is Kintaibashi Bridge in Suō Province from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces, ca. 1834, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Color woodblock print on paper.
Shown above is Monkey Bridge in Kai from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces, 1853, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). Color woodblock print on paper.
Detail from Monkey Bridge in Kai
Shown above is Hanging-Cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō Ashikaga from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces, ca. 1834, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Color woodblock print on paper.
Shown above is Suspension Bridge between Hida and Etchū from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces, ca. 1834, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Color woodblock print on paper.
Shown above is Ochanomizu from the series Views of Famous Places in Edo, 1861, by Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869). Color woodblock print on paper.
Detail from Ochanomizu
Shown above is Kintaibashi Bridge at Iwakuni in Suō Province from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in the Provinces,1859, by Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869). Color woodblock print on paper.
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