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This is a messenger statue of Osship Zackin installed at Chuo-ohashi Bridge, which everyone knows. When I crossed the bridge, I could see only the back of the head, so I was always worried about what kind of face it looked like when viewed from the front.

Fortunately, Sumida's fireworks wrote a detailed report that looked closely at the Messenger statue installed in Kiyoharu Art Village, and I was able to have the image of "it looks like this kind of face."

However, the impulse to see the face of the statue at Chuo-ohashi Bridge is unstoppable (laughs), and the above photo was taken. It was the same as Kiyoharu's. It's natural because it's the same mold. But it's refreshing (^^)

By the way, the gaze of this statue seemed to be facing a slightly westward than the upper center of the Sumida River. In other words, it seems that it is a message to a ship going out of the Sumida River rather than a ship entering the Sumida River. (Because the boat is on the right side)

"Don't sink" (Fluctuat nec mergitur.　The message is perfect as a support message for ships heading to the open sea from the Sumida River. Unfortunately, as of the 21st century, there are no piers for ships heading to the open sea upstream than Chuo-ohashi Bridge. 。 。

If you look closely at the top picture, it appears that a small bird is stopping behind the messenger. When I enlarged it and took it (pictured on the left), it was black-tailed gull. It seems that they are talking to the statue (laughs).

There was also an article that a bank in Minsk in the Republic of Belarus, where Zackin's birthplace was located, purchased a messenger statue from Christies. Originally, it is a statue made by molding a wooden sculpture that was exhibited at the Paris Expo in 1937, so it may not be a single item, but sometimes it appears on the market.

Shin-Kamejima Bridge is a bridge that crosses the Kamejima River, where Sakura-dori St., which is heading east from Yaesu, is the border with the Shinkawa area (formerly Reigishima). When it was renewed in 1995, it was designed with the motif of "Kaisen" in association with Reigishijima, which was once crowded with Hishigaki and Tarumisen.

In the center of the bridge, there is a small balcony called Alcove, and on the downstream side, there is a relief like Ukiyo-e under the title "Locking a ship" and on the upstream side, "Moneying up Okawa". . (Please see the lower right of each photo above.)

However, in the middle of the relief, I think the government's sense of sticking a caution plate saying "prohibition of feeding birds" dignifiedly ... (x_x)

This relief was a double-sided carving that could be viewed from the side of the river! (Photo on the left). I noticed for the first time when I saw it from the ship, or later saw a photo of Shin-Kamejima Bridge. I didn't aim and took it, but I enlarged what was in the picture, so the image was bad and it looked like a backboard, but at a later date, when I reached out from the bridge and checked it, it was carved properly I understood that it was done.

Only the text plate part is attached on the bridge side and the river side, but the landscape description part is shared, so when viewed from the river, the left and right of the pattern is reversed and it is interesting.