絵本江戸みやげ 2編6巻 [2]

西村重長, 鈴木春信画 · 菊屋安兵衛 · 53 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, a volume of the Ehon Edo Miyage series, with drawings credited to Nishimura Shigenaga and Suzuki Harunobu and published by Kikuya Yasubei. Its pages show Edo townscapes with calligraphic text columns running down the sheets, and the pictures suggest a designer could borrow the layered perspective of bridges, rooftops and crowds, plus the flat, economical linework of the period.

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