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〔江戸高名会亭尽〕 隅田川橋場渡之図(収載資料名:広重画帖)

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A Japanese woodblock print from the Edo period, designed by Utagawa Hiroshige, collected in a picture album of famous Edo teahouses and inns and likely made for a popular urban audience. The scene shows travellers in layered robes walking along a riverbank past low-roofed houses, pine trees and a fenced waterfront, with a small boat on the water. A designer could take its flat planes of colour, quiet horizontal layering of riverbank, buildings and water, and the figures placed in a diagonal stroll across the 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