明治橋

Built in Meiji 9 (1876), the fourth bridge down from the upper reaches of the old Itachibori River. The name comes from its completion in the Meiji period. It was rebuilt as a steel plate girder bridge in Showa 2 (1927), with bronze lamps standing like lanterns on granite posts. The railings carried the miotsukushi channel marker worked with a warabi fern pattern, a design unusual for its time. The bridge disappeared in Showa 31 (1956) when the Itachibori River was filled in, but because the district grew after the bridge opened, the name Meiji has been kept locally ever since in the names of the neighbourhood association and the primary school. A monument now stands where the bridge was.

Translated from the Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City tourist listings (観光施設一覧, CC BY 4.0).