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Togetsu Bridge at Arashiyama in Yamashiro

山城嵐山渡月橋（諸国名橋奇覧）

  • Distant View
  • Bridge
  • Mountain
  • Water
Togetsu Bridge at Arashiyama in Yamashiro — Hokusai woodblock landscape — Togetsu Bridge at Arashiyama in Yamashiro. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).
Katsushika Hokusai. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).

Togetsu Bridge at Arashiyama in Yamashiro. Hokusai organizes landscape through viewpoint and form — compare this sheet with others in the same series.

Check viewpoint tags: bird’s-eye, looking up, distant, or from between the waves.

Follow how water, mountain, bridge, and figure forms divide the composition.

Extended Japanese viewing notes: 山城嵐山渡月橋（諸国名橋奇覧）.

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