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〔江戸勝景〕 桜田外の図(収載資料名:広重画帖)

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A Japanese woodblock print from the Hiroshige picture album of Edo views, published by Kawase, showing the moat outside Sakurada gate in Edo. The image shows a curving moat edged by grass banks, with travellers in kimono and hats walking along the path past low walls, red gates and pine trees under a pale sky. A designer could take its flat colour planes, the sweeping curve of the water, and the layered horizon of wall, roofline and tree silhouettes as a compositional model.

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National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library