EU: Spectacle bridge at Kyoto (1890)
1890 Kyoto, Japan
A stone bridge known as the Spectacle Bridge, its arches resembling eyeglasses, spans a waterway in Kyoto in this 1890 photograph, an example of the stone bridge designs introduced to Japan in earlier centuries.
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