Picture Book of the Souvenirs of Edo (Ehon Edo miyage 絵本江戸土産) : [volume 02]

Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 · 1850 · Edo: Kikuya Kōzaburō 菊屋幸三郎 (Kinkōdō 金幸堂); Kyoto & Osaka · 14 pictures

Picture Book of the Souvenirs of Edo is a woodblock-printed illustrated volume, volume two, made by Utagawa Hiroshige and published in Edo in 1850 by Kikuya Kōzaburō for a popular traveller and armchair-tourist audience. Its double-page spreads show Edo-period scenes of the city's outskirts, with boats, bridges and fields. The pictures use soft washes of blue, green and pink over fine keyline, with calligraphic text panels set into the margins, giving a designer a clear model for spare landscape layouts and text-and-image spreads.

Tokyo (Japan)

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