Koizumi Kishio 小泉癸巳男 (1893-1945)
Nihon Bridge on 29 December, the national holiday of naming the Crown Prince (Jūnigatsu nijūkunichi Kōtaishidenka gomeimei shukujitsu no Nihonbashi 十二月二十九日皇太子殿下御命名祝日の日本橋)
Series: One hundred pictures of Great Tokyo in the Shōwa era (Shōwa dai Tōkyō hyakuzue 昭和大東京百圖繪)
Date: January 1934
Signature: Koizumi Kishio in the lower right margin. Koizumi Kishio in red roman letters on print.
Artist's seal: Izumi
Publisher: Self-published

Nihon Bridge (Nihonbashi) gained its fame not just from its beauty but also its function. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) decided that distances to all locations in Japan were to be measured from this bridge, thus making it Japan's nodal point. It was also the starting point of the famous Tōkaidō road. On the northeast side of the bridge was the city's largest fish market. It remained there until it was completely destroyed in the 1923 earthquake, and a new market was established at Tsukiji.