Just today I finished paging and reading through a lovely book by Matthi 
Forrer, titled Hiroshige, about the renowned and prolific Japanese 
ukiyo-e wood-block printing artist Utagawa Hiroshige, of the 1800s. 
Known most famously perhaps as the creator of the work "Under the Great 
Wave off Kanagawa",  popularly known as "the Wave", "the Great Wave" 
also 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', though he is known to have created 
some 8000 works.

https://www.hiroshige.org.uk/

But I digress. Quite a number of his works include images of wooden 
bridges, some of them seemingly very long, and built of wood. And it 
occurred to me I've never seen or read anything about historic Japanese 
wooden bridge building. Can anyone point me to a source of information?

Don

-- 
“What we are seeing is a decision by the government to get as many people
infected as possible, as quickly as possible,
while using rhetoric about caution as a way of putting the blame on the public
for the consequences...”
- Prof Robert West, health psychologist, University College, London

"extremist individualism … an ideology that claims to be about freedom when
really it means selfishness”.