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Picture Book of the Souvenirs of Edo (Ehon Edo miyage 絵本江戸土産) : [volume 05]

Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 · 1850 · Edo: Kikuya Kōzaburō 菊屋幸三郎 (Kinkōdō 金幸堂); Kyoto & Osaka · 23 pictures

Ehon Edo miyage is a volume of woodblock-printed landscape views of Edo, made by Utagawa Hiroshige and published in 1850 by Kikuya Kōzaburō in Edo, Kyoto and Osaka for a popular travel-souvenir market. Its double-page spreads show shrines, pavilions, pine-lined paths, ponds and a bridge, each with a column of printed verse beside the image. A designer can draw on its restrained palette of pale blue, grey-green and ochre, its flat planes of water and sky, and its compact, layered compositions framed by fences and tree lines.

Tokyo (Japan)

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