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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] · 21 pictures

This is a Japanese illustrated travel guide (ehon) from the Edo period, issued by the publisher Kikuya Saburo with text by Shōtei Kinsui and pictures attributed to Utagawa Hiroshige and Hiroshige II, showing Edo sights. The woodblock views of rooftops, shrines, gardens and lakeside landscapes, framed by calligraphic poems on facing pages, offer a designer compositional models of layered perspective and placed text beside image.

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