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〔江戸高名会亭尽〕 深川八幡境内(収載資料名:広重画帖)

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A Japanese woodblock print from Utagawa Hiroshige's series of famous Edo teahouses, published in Edo for a general readership, showing a rainy night scene at the Fukagawa Hachiman shrine precinct. The colour print shows palm-like trees in the foreground with a figure in blue holding a parasol and a woman in a patterned kimono walking under rain, with low wooden buildings and a torii gate behind, a designer could draw on its restrained palette of indigo, ochre and grey and its layered diagonal rain lines for atmospheric pattern.

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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