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〔東都名所〕(収載資料名:広重画帖)

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This is a Japanese woodblock print from the Edo-era collection of Utagawa Hiroshige-style views of Tokyo sights, shown here in the form of a picture book page. The scene shows crowds strolling beneath blossoming trees along a fence, with a thatched-roof teahouse at left and figures seated on wooden benches, rendered in soft greens, pinks and blues with flat areas of colour and fine linework. A designer might take the layered tree branches, the simple flat palette, and the stylised groupings of small figures as a model for compositions built from pattern and open space.

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