Eight Bridges
Eight Bridges (Japanese: 八橋; Romaji: ''Yatsuhashi'') is a design of Japanese bridge that consists of eight overlapping wooden or stone planks. Its eight-part construction was first mentioned in ''The Tales of Ise'', written during the Heian Period, and was for many centuries a well known literary motif in Japan. Over time the motif (which became stylised into a zig-zag shape), was incorporated into a large range of art forms: it could be found on kimonos, writing boxes, screens and porcelain, and in ''ukiyo-e'' prints and garden landscapes. The specific form of the eight-plank bridge was subsequently utilised by artists and designers around the globe, by which time it had become dislocated from its origins in ''The Tales of Ise'' and literary allusion. Literary origins The Eight Bridges originates from ''The Tales of Ise'' – a collection of episodes, sometimes attributed to the poet Ariwara no Narihara (825–880), about the life of an unidentified man in the capital and hi ...
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