Picture Book of the Souvenirs of Edo (Ehon Edo miyage 絵本江戸土産) : [volume 09]

Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 · 1864 · Edo: Kikuya Kōzaburō 菊屋幸三郎 (Kinkōdō 金幸堂) · 16 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock picture book of Edo scenes, volume nine, made by Andō Hiroshige and published in Edo in 1864 by Kikuya Kōzaburō for a general readership of travellers and armchair sightseers. The pictures show pine and cherry trees, Mount Fuji, temple buildings, and rice-field landscapes, drawn in flat colour with calm, open compositions and columns of poetic calligraphy beside each view, which a designer might borrow for layered horizons, tree silhouettes, and text-and-image page layouts.

Tokyo (Japan)

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