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絵本江戸土産 10編

松亭金水 解説, 一立斎広重, 広重二世 画 · 菊屋三郎[ほか] · 28 pictures

This is a Japanese illustrated gazetteer (ehon) of Edo, published in the Edo period, with text by Shōtei Kinsui and landscape prints by Utagawa Hiroshige and his successor Hiroshige II, issued by the Kikuya publishing house for travellers and urban readers. Its double-page woodblock views show Edo-area sites such as shrine groves, riverbanks, lakes and paddy fields, with calligraphic poems printed beside them. A designer might draw on the layered horizon bands, the pale blue and ochre colour washes, and the small figures placed along paths to suggest scale and quiet depth.

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