Picture Book of the Souvenirs of Edo (Ehon Edo miyage 絵本江戸土産) : [volume 08]

Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 · 1861 · Edo: Kikuya Kōzaburō 菊屋幸三郎 (Kinkōdō 金幸堂) · 16 pictures

A volume of woodblock-printed landscape views of Edo, published in 1861 by the Kikuya Kōzaburō firm in Edo, made by Andō Hiroshige for a general audience of travellers and armchair readers. The double-page spreads show riverside villages, pine groves, blossoming trees and hillside paths in soft washes of green, pink and blue, with calligraphic poems set into the sky areas. A designer could take the layered horizon compositions, the flat colour bands for sky and water, and the economical line used for trees and roofs.

Tokyo (Japan)

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