| 18 bridges over the Sumida Sept-Oct. 1998
Gallery Ef, Asakusa, Tokyo. The bridge - connecting two sides of the river.
What could be a better subject? And especially on this great old
river of Edo. Basho, Hiroshige, Hokusai, and Utamaro - These men knew this
river. It was the center of the Ukiyoe at a time you could drink
clean water from any part of it. Today Tokyo seemed to turn it's
back on the river. It has become the older, less fashionable part
of town. Homeless people pitch their blue tents along it. The
city built it's cement dragon highway beside it. But the river is
still alive. And it is part of what we have become.
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