Bundai gachō
A Japanese woodblock-printed album from 1844, attributed to Andō Hiroshige, a Edo-period artist, with a publisher unrecorded and held by the Smithsonian Libraries. The spread pairs a page of calligraphic poem columns on the left with a colour-washed landscape on the right, showing a tiled-roof gate, a flowering plum tree over a wall, and pine shrubs. A designer might take the sparse composition, generous margins, and soft washed blues and greys as a model for quiet, asymmetric layouts with text and image balanced.
