English: First crossing ceremony after the completion of the Shirakawa Bridge over the Arakawa in Shirakawa Village (now part of Chichibu City), Saitama Prefecture, Japan
English: Arakawamura Rekishi Minzoku Kenkyukai (ed.) Shashinshu "Mura no Kiroku" Arakawa Sonshi Shiryohen Yon (Picture Book "Record of the Village": Chronicle of Arakawa Village References 4), Arakawa Village, 1998, p. 27