• Introduction
• First book (上)
• Second book (中)
• Third book (下)
• Glossary and links

Glossary and links

During my research for this website the following historical maps of Edo were a great help:

• this map published in 1803,
• this aerial map published in 1803, and
• this map published in 1858.

Often recurring Japanese characters in these maps are:

In Japanese, voiceless consonants at the beginning of a word often become voiced when following another word. Sumida river, for example, is pronounced as Sumidagawa; Eitai bridge is pronounced as Eitaibashi; Tsukuda island is pronounced as Tsukudajima, et cetera.

For a view of the Japanese Preface to the first book see my other website here.

Finally, on this page of my Sumidagawa website you can find photos I made of all the first fifteen bridges currently crossing the Sumida river in Tokyo in the order you encounter them when sailing up the river starting from Tokyo bay.

References

• Clark, Timothy (1992). The Rise and Fall of the Island of Nakazu. Archives of Asian Art, 45, pp.72-91.

• Forrer, Matthi (2010). Hokusai. Munich: Prestel Verlag.

• Forrer, Matthi (2012). Hokusai: Coup d’oeil sur les deux rives du fleuve Sumida, suivi de: Le fleuve Yodo. Paris: Editions Hazan.

• Hillier, Jack (1980). The art of Hokusai in book illustration. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

• Nagata, Seiji (1999). Hokusai. Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

• Sadamura, Tadashi (1987). Ima, Hokusai ga yomigaeru Ukiyoe hanga ga suriagaru made. Publisher: Kawade Shobo Shinsha.

• Smith, Henry D. (1986). Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. New York: George Braziller.