画本東都遊 3巻
This is a Japanese woodblock picture book in three volumes, published in Edo in 1802, with text by Asakusaan and illustrations by Katsushika Hokusai, made for popular readers wanting views of the capital. The pictures are colour woodblock prints of pink-washed hillside paths, shrines, teahouse verandas and riverbanks, with simple flat planes of colour and gently receding layers of buildings, useful to a designer studying how Edo-period artists used pale washes, cloud bands and stepped compositions to suggest depth.
