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The is a bridge in

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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, Arak ...

just upstream of its confluence with the

Kanda River The stretches 24.6 km from Inokashira Park in Mitaka, Tokyo, Mitaka to the Sumida River under the Ryōgoku Bridge at the boundary of Taito, Tokyo, Taitō, Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, and Sumida, Tokyo, Sumida. Its entire length lies within Tok ...

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

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(the forerunner of Tokyo in

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) and

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. The neighborhood at the east end of the bridge,

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

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Timeline

* 1659 ('' Manji 2''): Building began on the Ryōgoku Bridge. * January 26, 1881: The

Great Ryōgoku Fire The Great Ryōgoku Fire, or Great Kanda Fire, occurred on 26 January 1881, in Tokyo, Japan. The fire was the largest and most destructive of the Meiji era. At about 2 a.m., two fires broke out simultaneously on the path along the Kanda River. Due ...

occurs. * September 1, 1923 ('' Taishō 12, 1st day of the 9th month''): The bridge was damaged during the

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.Tokyo Metropolitan Government. (1937)
''An Administrative Perspective of Tokyo,'' Vol. 1937, p.85
* 1932 (''

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7''): Bridge re-building completed.

Gallery

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

Hokusai , known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock print series ''Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'' includes the iconic print ''The Gr ...

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) -

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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

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