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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 Hiroshige's album of Edo sights, made in Japan in the nineteenth century for a popular print-buying audience. The image shows moored cargo boats with large pale sails and rigging against a dusk sky over a waterfront town, and a designer could take its flat colour areas, layered blues and pinks, and simplified sail shapes as a model for graphic composition.

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