Shohei Bridge, Seido (Sacred Temple) and Kanda River

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo No.47Shohei Bridge, Seido (Sacred Temple) and Kanda River

Seido (Sacred Temple) was a temple which enshrined Confucius and his disciples. Anyone wanting to go to Seido from Nihonbashi, the busiest section of Edo, had to cross Shohei Bridge, which spanned the Kanda River. The name of the bridge was derived from the name of the village where Confucius was born. Three of the five major highways starting from Nihonbashi Bridge — Nakasendo, Oshukaido and Nikkokaido — crossed the bridge.
Seido temple was built on a hill called Yushima, so the temple came to be known as Yushima Seido. During the Edo period, Confucianism was the official learning employed by the shogunate, and this temple was seen as a type of national university, being the centre of Confucian learning. Warriors’ sons who reached 12 years of age would come here to take an examination on the Nine Chinese Classics. Those who failed the exam were prohibited from succeeding their father as the head of the family. However, anyone who failed could try again until they succeeded.
The Kanda River was an artificial channel bringing a water supply from Inokashira pond towards Edo. It emptied into the Sumida River to the east. In early times, the river had been too shallow for freight boats to come up from Edo Bay by way of the Sumida River. So, in 1660, a shogun instructed his subjects to make the river deeper and wider so that boats would be able to more easily transport goods up the river.
On the bank across the river in this print is a slope leading to Seido temple, and people can be seen travelling towards the temple under light rain. During early summer, after each rain, leaves on trees and grass in the fields become a luxuriant green.

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