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The Hanging-cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō near Ashikaga

足利行田山雲梯之橋（諸国名橋奇覧）

  • Looking Up
  • Bridge
  • Mountain
The Hanging-cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō near Ashikaga — Hokusai woodblock landscape — The Hanging-cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō near Ashikaga. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).
Katsushika Hokusai. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).

The Hanging-cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō near Ashikaga. 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: 足利行田山雲梯之橋（諸国名橋奇覧）.

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