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Tokyo Waterways (the Arteries)

- jeeff - Tuesday, April 19th, 2005 : goo

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tokyo's waterways are much-maligned. once they were the lifeblood of the city, ferrying people and goods through a complex network of channels. the rivers were so ubiquitous that -bashi or "bridge" is still a common suffix for neighbourhoods - places like nihombashi or kappabashi. now the waters flow in the shadow of roaring expressways, or they disappear underground. still, the water that flows straight-jacketed under the bridges feels awake - old, subdued, but watching.

image 924
^ the kanda near its terminus in the sumida river. upstream is ochanomizu, which means "tea-water," so-called because the river runs green.

image 929
^ looking downstream along the sumida river. in the 1923 great kanto eartquake and again during the firebombs of WWII, huge numbers of people leapt into the water and drowned. locals say that the cherry trees lining the banks here blossom with special beauty because of all the lost souls.

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^ taken from nihombashi, once the center point in all of japan, where distances were measured from. now the bridge and the river stand in the shadow of an expressway.

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^ a back alley drainage ditch in shibuya. memories of anime flicks that i've seen.

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^ i had an unsettling dream about this place, a bridge near akihabara. the next evening i went down and stood overlooking the water as the light failed. i felt like this was the center of everything surrounding it. something about the rows of blank windows and the murky water, it gave me chills.

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Peter: 19th Apr 2005 - 17:00 GMT

i changed this article back to its old article # here on the site, as it was getting alot of external links, and i wanted em to be live again :)

jeeff: coool.

Jamie: he the man

elaine: 20th Apr 2005 - 09:24 GMT

Re: tokyo waterways (the arteries) It's so beautiful and melancholy. I had no idea. Saves me ever having to go back to venice, this has th water mojo and the modern and the foreign. It looks right up my waterway

jeeff: 20th Jun 2005 - 02:49 GMT

peeing in public is common in japan, though frowned upon. they have lots of public washrooms, usually right beside the police boxes. the public washrooms smell bad, and they're all traditional japanese squat toilets (which is good for a public washroom because you never actually touch anything - and you wouldn't want to).

trika: 8th Feb 2006 - 17:02 GMT

that is so pretty i wish i can go and vist tokyo some day i would really have to vist the waterways they are so beautiful

Peter: 8th Feb 2006 - 18:13 GMT

this series is definitely a ...

jeeff: oh, how i miss tokyo.

noon: I love this! WOW.

sarah: cool.... i didn't know that ;D

anon (24.42.67.29): LOL soo cool

bob: 1st Jun 2009 - 23:52 GMT

this is awesome and im doing a project on it right know

reijo: 25th Oct 2009 - 16:26 GMT

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river
Is a strong brown god—sullen, untamed and intractable,
Patient to some degree, at first recognised as a frontier;
Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce;
Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges.
The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten
By the dwellers in cities—ever, however, implacable.
Keeping his seasons and rages, destroyer, reminder
Of what men choose to forget. Unhonoured, unpropitiated
By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.
His rhythm was present in the nursery bedroom,
In the rank ailanthus of the April dooryard,
In the smell of grapes on the autumn table,
And the evening circle in the winter gaslight.

(t.s.eliot, the dry salvages)

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