"Evening Shower at Nihonbashi Bridge" by Hiroshige Utagawa: From the Series "Celebrated Places in the Eastern Capital"
"Evening Shower at Nihonbashi Bridge" is from the series "Celebrated Places in the Eastern Capital" by Hiroshige Utagawa (1797-1858), which was published by Kikakudo, ca. 1834-1835. It is one of the most impressive prints of the series. A sprinkling of rain falls on Nihonbashi, which is Edo's most famous bridge. In the distance, Edo castle and Mt. Fuji can be seen.
Hiroshige was born in Edo (current Tokyo), and studied the art of the woodblock print (Ukiyo-e) under Toyohiro Utagawa. Now, he is famous as the last great master of Japanese traditional Ukiyo-e. Hiroshige's landscape prints influenced painters all over the world, including Cezanne and Gauguin.
(Explanation: Shigenori MARUYAMA; Cover: reproduced by The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints)
Special Issue on "Tokyo: Past, Present, and Future (Part I)"
Introduction to the Special Issue on "Tokyo: Past, Present, and Future (Part I)"
Toshio KIKUCHI, Shigenori MARUYAMA, Tomio INAZAKI, Yohta KUMAKI, Masaaki KUREHA, Osam SANO, Toshihiko SUGAI and Atsunao MARUI
Preface for the Special Issue on "Tokyo: Past, Present, and Future (Part I)"
Last 400 ka Landform Evolution of the Kanto Plain: Under the Influence of Concurrent Glacio-eustatic Sea Level Changes and Tectonic Activity (Original Article)
Toshihiko SUGAI, Hiroko MATSUSHIMA (OGAMI) and Kiyohide MIZUNO
Paleogeography of the Tokyo and Nakagawa Lowlands since the Last Glacial Maximum (Original Article)
Susumu TANABE
Tokyo Lowland and Chuseki-so: Formation of the Soft Ground and Jomon Transgression (Original Article)
Kunihiko ENDO, Shigeko ISHIWATA, Shinzaburo HORI and Yuriko NAKAO
Land Transformation in Tokyo and Its Surrounding Regions (Review Article)
Yohta KUMAKI, Mamoru KOARAI and Takayuki NAKANO
Climate Variations in Tokyo since the Edo Period (Original Article)
Masumi ZAIKI and Takehiko MIKAMI
Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 2013, 122(6), 1010.
DOI:10.5026/jgeography.122.1010
Urbanization and Faunal Changes over the Past 100 Years in and around Tokyo Metropolis (Review Article)
Sadao TAKAOKA
History of Urban Water Use in Tokyo: Focusing on Surface Water and Groundwater as Water Sources (Review Article)
Akio YAMASHITA
The Past, Present, and Future of View in Tokyo (Review Article)
Yu OKAMURA
Verifying Vulnerability to Natural Disasters in Tokyo (Review Article)
Iware MATSUDA
History and Future of Volcanic Disasters in and around the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Central Japan (Review Article)
Takehiko SUZUKI
Pictorial 1: DEMs of Basal Topography of Alluvium and Present Surface around Tokyo and Nakagawa Lowlands, Kanto Plain, Central Japan
Susumu TANABE, Chikako ETO, Ken-ichi SHIBUYA and Tomio INAZAKI
Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 2013, 122(6), ix.
DOI:10.5026/jgeography.122.ix
A kmz file including Figure 2 and 5 in the Pictorial 1.