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〔江都名所〕(収載資料名:広重画帖)

広重 · 1 picture

A Japanese woodblock print from a Hiroshige sketchbook of Edo sights, likely made in the 1840s or 1850s for a general urban audience. The picture shows blossoming cherry trees over a crowd of picnickers on a riverbank, with a blue river and distant town behind. A designer could take the layered, flattened perspective and the pale pink blossom against blue water as a model for compact, decorative landscape composition.

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