First book of Hokusai’s views of both banks of the Sumida river


In his first book Hokusai starts the journey at the large entrance gate to Edo on the Tōkaidō road at Takanawa and ends up just south of Ryōgoku bridge, the first bridge to be built across the Sumida river after the devastating Meireki fire of 1657. Moving your mouse over the red circles in the following Edo map will indicate the location of each image in this book, and clicking on any of these circles will transfer you straight away to the corresponding images.

Moving your mouse over this map will also provide you with the names of a number of Edo bridges (in orange), districts and quarters (in white), temples and shrines (in bright red), and buildings and houses (in dark blue), as I was able to identify them from the historical Edo maps mentioned on my Glossary and links webpage.


Edo map first book
Tsukiji
Funamatsu quarter
Honminato quarter
Imagawa quarter
Eitai bridge
Shin Ohashi bridge
Ryogoku bridge
Ichi no hashi bridge
Mannen bridge
Upper bridge
Middle bridge
Lower bridge
Toyomi bridge
Eikyu bridge
Inari bridge
Taka bridge
Nihon bridge
Kyo bridge
Shin hashi bridge
Kanasugi bridge
Samusa bridge
Honganji temple
Sumiyoshi shrine
Zojo temple
Boat sheds of the shogun
Residence of Matsudaira from Totomi province
Residence of Matsudaira Sadanobu
Okido
Ferry to Edo
Tsukudajima island
View of Eitai bridge
View of Shin Ohashi bridge
View from old Yanagi bridge
View of the main street of Hirokoji

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