A Diary of Travel from Edo to Nagasaki (Saiyū ryodan, 西遊旅譚) : [volume 5]
A Diary of Travel from Edo to Nagasaki is volume five of a Japanese travel account by Shiba Kōkan (1738?-1818), published in Osaka in 1803 by Kawachiya Tasuke for readers interested in journeys across Japan. Its woodblock pages pair ink landscape drawings of mountains, pine-covered ridges, villages and a small bridge with columns of handwritten Japanese text on facing sheets, showing how a traveller's sketches and notes were arranged together. A designer might draw on the sparse, hatched line work for mountain textures and the balance of image and calligraphic text on the page.
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