Picture Book of the Souvenirs of Edo (Ehon Edo miyage 絵本江戸土産) : [volume 01]

Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 · 1850 · Edo: Kikuya Kōzaburō 菊屋幸三郎 (Kinkōdō 金幸堂) · 21 pictures

A volume of woodblock-printed landscape views of Edo, issued in 1850 by the Kikuya publisher in Edo and made by the ukiyo-e artist Andō Hiroshige for a popular audience of travellers and armchair tourists. The double-page spreads show shrines, temple halls, wooden bridges, boats, reed-lined riverbanks and pine trees, with calligraphic poem slips set into the sky and water. A designer could draw on the layered horizontal bands of pale blue water and pink-tinged hills, the spare ink outlines and the flat colour washes.

Tokyo (Japan)

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