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〔江戸勝景〕 虎之門外之図(収載資料名:広重画帖)

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A Japanese woodblock print from an ehon picture album, published by Kawamasa and held in a Hiroshige sketchbook collection, showing a view of Toranomon in Edo. The scene shows a long white-walled government compound seen across a stone-faced moat, with women in blue kimono under parasols and a woman carrying a basket on the path. A designer might take its flat colour areas, the calm blue water band and the layered horizontal composition of wall, roofline and figures.

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