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絵本江戸錦 第1冊

桜川慈悲成//作,歌川豊春//筆 · 1804 · 奥村喜兵衛 · 15 pictures

This is a 1804 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) from Edo, published by Okumura Kihei, with text by Sakuragawa Jihei and pictures by Utagawa Toyoharu, made for general readers of popular urban views. The pictures are colour woodblock prints in soft ochre, green and pink, showing bridges, crowded streets, boats on rivers and temple grounds drawn from elevated viewpoints, a useful model for layered landscape composition and for crowd scenes arranged along diagonal walkways.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library