清親畫帖 [2]

小林清親畫 · 1800 · [製作者不明] · 9 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture album (ehon) by the printmaker Kobayashi Kiyochika, catalogued with an uncertain date of 1800 and an unknown publisher, made for general viewers of prints. The pictures are colour woodblock views of Tokyo streets, rivers, bridges and shrine grounds at dusk or morning, with flat planes of colour, soft gradient skies and tree-lined perspectives a designer could borrow for atmospheric landscape layouts and muted palettes.

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