This is from Hokusai’s famous ‘One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji.’ As the title indicates Hokusai drew seven bridges in this scene. Could you identify seven bridges? The vastly exaggerated bridge in the center acts as a frame for the image, and below it we can see the other 6 bridges and Fuji, as well as many people, such as farmers and travelers, including a horse.

Hokusai included many details, and it is interesting to inspect each person and guess what they are doing. A man squatting by the river in the foreground is washing a wooden pail. A man on the left is holding a long fishing rod. On the large bridge each of the two men is carrying a bulky load on his back and another traveler is looking down at something that is going on beneath.

It is obvious that Hokusai fully used perspective. As the largest figures are people on the bridge, the viewpoint is perhaps somewhere as high as the towering bridge.