絵本江戸桜
This is a Japanese ehon picture book, Ehon Edo Sakura, published in 1795 by Tsutaya Juzaburo in Edo for a general readership of townspeople. Its pages are paired woodblock views of shrines, temple grounds and gardens with crowds of strollers, and the color prints show flat washes of green, ochre and rose with lines of calligraphic verse above. A designer might take its layered compositions, where pavilions and trees frame small figures, and its delicate pastel palette.
