Picture Book of the Souvenirs of Edo (Ehon Edo miyage 絵本江戸土産) : [volume 03]

Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 · 1850 · Edo: Kikuya Kōzaburō 菊屋幸三郎 (Kinkōdō 金幸堂); Kyoto & Osaka · 24 pictures

Picture Book of the Souvenirs of Edo is a woodblock-printed volume issued in 1850 in Edo by the publisher Kikuya Kōzaburō, with Kyoto and Osaka distribution, and was made by Andō Hiroshige for travellers and armchair readers wanting views of the city. Its double-page spreads show Edo-period landscapes of parks, shorelines, flat rice fields and pine groves, with small figures on paths and verse inscriptions set in the sky and margins. A designer might take its restrained palette of grey-blue, pale pink and ochre washes, its open horizon compositions and its layered tree silhouettes.

Tokyo (Japan)

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