The 45th view of Utagawa Hiroshige’s “100 Famous View of Edo” is Yoroi Ferry, Koami-cho, the original picture is here.
On the southwest side of the Edo-hashi Bridge, now crossed by Yoroi-bashi bridge, but before that, this was a place where ferryboats used to come and go. The other side of the river (Hakozaki side) was lined with warehouses of merchants who used the Sumida River and canals for water transportation, and an old map I saw from the Edo period shows this area as “Warehouse yard”.
It seems that in both Edo and Osaka areas, warehouse was a place where swallows made their nests,
The back of the warehouse is a path for swallows.
It is a famous Haiku about it. The paintings by Hiroshige also depict swallows flying about.
The modern armored riverbanks are quite tasteless compared to this, and look like this.
A large office building sits in place of the warehouse. I was wondering if there are almost no windows on the canal (Nihonbashi River) side, so I checked the floor plan of the said building and found that the canal side is mainly an elevator zone and restrooms(lol), and the vertical slit on the right side seems to be a slight office zone window.
Well, I don’t know.
The Nihonbashi River now has no ferry or water transportation, and the view is not very nice, and it smells a little strange during the summer season, so I guess the developer is not too aggressive in providing openings.
The photo was taken from the Yoroi-bashi Bridge, and if you look back 180 degrees, you can see the famous building looming large in front of you.
This is the Tokyo Stock Exchange building. So this area is the securities and financial district commonly known as “Kabuto-cho”.
Kabuto-cho is so quiet that it is like a brief sleep on weekends.
In the midst of a stately but somewhat bleak city, I suddenly came across an unexpectedly vibrant green.
Perhaps this kind of greenery is needed in an office district, which tends to have a dry view when you think about it. This store is closed on holidays, so I can’t tell you the details, but it looked like a business that delivers potted plants and other greenery for office use.
So, I went for a photo walk around the Nihon-bashi and Kabuto-cho area, taking #43, #44, and #45 views. I am getting the feeling that there are many places that can be covered by using the telephoto end at 60mm. If that is the case, it would be a great help to lighten my baggage!
However, there is still the problem of how to supplement the equipment to cover the few but surely existing “shooting areas where the 20-60mm is clearly not enough”.
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