This is an extra edition article of “100 Famous Views of Edo” photo walk.
“#063 Eight views bridge” is this picture depicting the view from Ikkoku-bashi Bridge, which still exists near the Nihonbashi exit of present-day Tokyo Station.
The canal extending vertically in the center of the picture no longer exists, and has been reclaimed to form Eitai-dori Avenue. I went to the site, wondering how to take a picture of it, but I found that there was some kind of enclosure under construction, and I could not get close to it.
Removing the Ikkoku-bashi Bridge?
Yes, that is indeed what the sign says. I asked the person in charge of traffic control at the site.
He replied, “This is a construction project to widen and replace the bridge. I heard that the current bridge will be torn down and replaced one side at a time.”
When I got home, I looked it up and found out that it tells me that the new Ikkoku Bridge will be completed in 2040(!)).
… I am not only unable to take pictures of the 63 views in my 100 Famous Views of Edo” walk now, but it is becoming a little doubtful whether I will be able to do so in the future.
I decided to get myself together and took a picture of the Ikkoku Bridge, which is being demolished on one side, from a different location.
By the way, all the errands so far on the Ikkoku-bashi have been done with the Lumix S20-60mm.
The SIGMA 90mm F2.8, which I had in my bag as a medium telephoto amulet, was about to go home without a chance to use it. However, regardless of the context up to this point, I found a beautiful group of hydrangeas near a bridge, and when I tried to take a shot with the elevated Metropolitan Expressway in the background, the 60mm was not enough.
Finally, the SIGMA 90mm came into play.
The slowly blurring and melting back bokeh and the lush hydrangea in the foreground. As one would expect from a single focal length lens, the results are very different.
The above is a miscellaneous note to say that I found the way forward for photographing the #63 sceneries to be very difficult.
