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〔東都名所〕 駿河町〔之図〕(収載資料名:広重画帖)

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A woodblock print from Hiroshige's album of Edo views, published in Japan in the nineteenth century for a general audience of print buyers and travellers. The street scene shows a crowded Edo merchant lane with blue-curtained shop fronts, a hanging shop sign, and a porter carrying a load on a pole, with Mount Fuji rising at the end of the street. A designer could draw on its flat colour blocks, bold indigo and cream rhythm, and the strong one-point perspective that pulls the eye down the street.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

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