Japanese color prints
A 1917 New York catalogue from the American Art Association, reproducing Japanese color prints for collectors and art dealers, with Kenkichi Hirakawa named as a subject. The pages show plates of prints by Hiroshige and others, some rotated sideways on the page. For a designer, the pictures offer compositional lessons in layering panels, framing landscapes with snow, water and trees, and using tall vertical formats of paired prints.
