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Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki on the Tōkaidō

東海道岡崎矢場之橋（諸国名橋奇覧）

  • Distant View
  • Bridge
  • Figures
  • Water
Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki on the Tōkaidō — Hokusai woodblock landscape — Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki on the Tōkaidō. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).
Katsushika Hokusai. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).

Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki on the Tōkaidō. 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: 東海道岡崎矢場之橋（諸国名橋奇覧）.

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