Picture of Golden gate bridge Ukiyo-e

Origin Story

It was a beautiful sunny day in San Francisco, and the Golden Gate Bridge was illuminated by a beautiful rainbow. A painter named Utagawa stopped to admire the view from the bridge. He was inspired by the beauty of this landscape and decided to capture it on canvas. He took out his brush and his palette and began to paint with passion.


Utagawa worked hard all day to complete his painting, which depicted the colors of the bridge shimmering in calm water under the bright sun. When he was finished, he admired his work with pride and satisfaction. This painting was to become an ukiyo-e (floating image), a very popular genre in Japan at that time. Utagawa knew that this ukiyo-e would be loved by people around the world who would admire his artistic vision of the Golden Gate Bridge.


Since then, the Golden Gate Bridge ukiyo-e created by Utagawa has been recognized as an exceptional work of art that reflects the natural beauty of San Francisco's surroundings and immortalizes that magical moment spent on the bridge with a rainbow. spectacular sky as a backdrop.