繪本江戸みやげ
An illustrated Japanese picture book (ehon) from 1779, with woodblock-printed pages drawn by Shigenaga and published by Kikuya Yasubee, likely for a popular readership in Edo. The pages show townscapes of Edo with rooftops, shopfronts, bridges and strolling figures in kimono. For a designer, the pictures offer clean ink-line architecture, compact crowd groupings and sparse landscape detail on a warm, aged paper ground.
