Views of Famous Places in Japan (Fusō meisho zue 扶桑名所図会)
A Japanese woodblock album of famous places, published in 1839 and attributed to Andō Hiroshige, with poems set beside landscape views for a general readership. The double-page spreads show pine-lined shores, misty hills, a distant pagoda, and a snow-capped mountain above water, rendered in soft blue, grey and pink washes with fine black outlines. A designer could take the restrained palette, generous white space, and calligraphic text blocks framed in thin rules.
