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〔江戸高名会亭尽〕 両国(収載資料名:広重画帖)

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A Japanese woodblock print from a Utagawa Hiroshige-era series of famous Edo teahouses, published in Edo for a general urban audience, with a Japanese title and collection label. The scene shows a riverside teahouse with a slatted wooden facade and a wooden jetty over the water, where a woman in a patterned kimono walks toward a boat and another figure sits inside the building. Designers could draw on its flat planes of ink-black lattice, the stepped diagonal composition, and the tonal blue-grey water and foliage.

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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