Picture Book of the Pleasures of the East (Ehon azuma asobi 画本東都遊) : [volume 2]
This is a volume of woodblock-printed picture book from Edo Japan, published in 1802 and attributed to Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), made for a general urban readership interested in the sights and pastimes of the capital. Its pages show landscapes, townscapes and street trades in simple flat colour with fine black outlines, offering a designer a clear model for compact, economical vignette composition and layered rooftop and foliage patterns.
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![Picture 2 of 3 from Picture Book of the Pleasures of the East (Ehon azuma asobi 画本東都遊) : [volume 2] (1802), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_13248-9-1.webp)
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