A Distant View of Mt. Fuji from beneath New Ohashi Bridge, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji from the Eastern Capital

This view from between the massive piers of a bridge, this time the Shin-Ōhashi that, like the Eitai Bridge seen above, spanned the Sumida River in Edo. The diagonal girders of the bridge create multiple triangles, while the triangular contours of the chabune boat form a visual dialogue with the conical shape of Mt. Fuji, seen in the distance. This play of shapes also appears periodically in Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji. Kuniyoshi, like many of his contemporaries, was influenced by Hokusai’s work; this series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji from the Eastern Capital was in part an homage to Hokusai’s series from a decade earlier.