Kintai Bridge 錦帯橋 kintai-kyou
“brocade sash bridge”
wooden arch bridge / Bogenbrücke aus Holz
completed 1673; destroyed 1950; rebuilt 1953
Iwakuni City
Kintai-kyô is an arch bridge (sorihashi) over the Nishiki-gawa river in Iwakuni, a town in Yamaguchi prefecture near Hiroshima. The bridge was commissioned by the lord of the castle, KIKKAWA Hiroyoshi, and completed in 1673 without the use of nails – see also Kiyomizu temple. The original five-humped bridge was badly damaged by a typhoon in 1950.
