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Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

built in 1659 spanning the

Sumida River The is a river that flows through central Tokyo, Japan. It branches from the Arakawa River at Iwabuchi (in Kita-ku) and flows into Tokyo Bay. Its tributaries include the Kanda and Shakujii rivers. It passes through the Kita, Adachi, Araka ...

just upstream of its confluence with the

Kanda River The stretches 24.6 km from Inokashira Park in Mitaka to the Sumida River under the Ryōgoku Bridge at the boundary of Taitō, Chūō, and Sumida. Its entire length lies within Tokyo, Japan. It drains an area of 105.0 km². The go ...

. Its name, meaning "two provinces", came from its joining

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(the forerunner of Tokyo in

Musashi Province was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was sometimes called . The province encompassed Kawasaki and Yokohama. Musashi bordered on Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami ...

) and

Shimōsa Province was a province of Japan in the area modern Chiba Prefecture, and Ibaraki Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Shimōsa''" in . It lies to the north of the Bōsō Peninsula (房総半島), whose name takes its first ''kanji'' from ...

. The neighborhood at the east end of the bridge,

Ryōgoku is a district in Sumida, Tokyo. It is surrounded by various districts in Sumida, Chūō, and Taitō wards: Yokoami, Midori, Chitose, Higashi Nihonbashi, and Yanagibashi. In 1659, the Ryōgoku Bridge was built, spanning the Sumida River just ...

, derived its name from that of the bridge. The bridge featured in the 2015 ''

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

'' "'' Miss Hokusai''".

Timeline

* 1659 ('' Manji 2''): Building began on the Ryōgoku Bridge. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834)
''Annales des empereurs du japon'', p. 413.
/ref> * September 1, 1923 ('' Taishō 12, 1st day of the 9th month''): The bridge was damaged during the

Great Kantō earthquake Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness Greatness is a concept of a state of superior (hierarchy), superiority affecting a person or wikt:entity, object in a par ...

.Tokyo Metropolitan Government. (1937)
''An Administrative Perspective of Tokyo,'' Vol. 1937, p.85
* 1932 ('' Shōwa 7''): Bridge re-building completed.

Gallery

File:Sunset across the Ryogoku bridge from the bank of the Sumida river at Onmagayashi.jpg,

Hokusai , known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best known for the woodblock print series '' Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'', which includes the iconic print ''The Great ...

File:Brooklyn Museum - Ryogoku Bridge and the Great Riverbank No 59 from One Hundred Views of Edo - Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando).jpg, Ryōgoku Bridge and the Great Riverbank (8th Month, 1856) -

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown ...

File:Tōtō_Ryōgokubashi_natsu_keshiki-Panoramic_View_of_Ryōgoku_Bridge_in_the_Summer_MET_DP148147.jpg, Panoramic View of Ryōgoku Bridge in the Summer (c. 1859) File:Ryogoku bashi old.jpg, 1904 File:Ryogoku bashi old2.jpg, 1875 File:Ryogoku Bridge.jpg, Ryōgoku Bridge (c. 1780)

References

Buildings and structures in Chūō, Tokyo Buildings and structures in Sumida, Tokyo {{Japan-bridge-struct-stub