{"id":7482,"date":"2011-05-23T08:05:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7482"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:50:26","slug":"the-meeting-of-the-fukagawa-and-the-sumidagawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/the-meeting-of-the-fukagawa-and-the-sumidagawa\/","title":{"rendered":"The meeting of the Fukagawa (\u6df1\u5ddd) and the Sumidagawa (\u9685\u7530\u5ddd) &#8211; past and present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/21155801trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/21155801trim.jpg\" alt=\"Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji \u5bcc\u5dbd\u4e09\u5341\u516d\u666f Fugaku Sanjurokkei ukiyo-e Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai\" title=\"fukagawa tokyo ukiyoe sumidagawa\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While walking to my daughter&#8217;s soccer game in a <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/shitamachi\/>shitamachi<\/a> area of Tokyo called Fukagawa (deep river) I came across this marker of one of Hokusai&#8217;s famous scenes from his series &#8220;36 Views of Mt. Fuji.&#8221; The title of the ukiyo-e is &#8220;Under the 10,000 year bridge over Fukagawa.&#8221; The bridge is no longer there so I&#8217;m guessing its existence ended up being only a few hundred years at most.<\/p>\n<p>Turning the corner a bit and looking down the Sumidagawa (a much larger and much deeper river than the Fukagawa&#8211;it&#8217;s the river in the background of the above which the Fukagawa is draining into) yielded the following modern view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/21160338trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/21160338trim.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sumida river sumidagawa tokyo fisherman kiyosubashi kiyosu bridge\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No chance of seeing Mount Fuji from here anymore with most of the buildings being over 10 stories high. Perhaps if you were on top of one of the buildings you may occasionally have a glimpse. The blue bridge in this image is the Kiyosu-bashi (\u6e05\u6d32\u6a4b). You can still see fishermen (the guy in the bottom of the photo has three fishing poles in the water) though. Some things don&#8217;t change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking to my daughter&#8217;s soccer game in a shitamachi area of Tokyo called Fukagawa (deep river) I came across this marker of one of Hokusai&#8217;s famous scenes from his series &#8220;36 Views of Mt. Fuji.&#8221; The title of the ukiyo-e is &#8220;Under the 10,000 year bridge over Fukagawa.&#8221; The bridge is no longer there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[325,172,259,309,30,326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33531,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions\/33531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}