Picture Album of Road Pictures (of the Tōkaidō Road) (Dōchū gafu 道中画譜)
Picture Album of Road Pictures is a Japanese woodblock picture book of 1830 by Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850), depicting travel along the Tōkaidō road for a general reading audience. Its double-page spreads show roadside scenes, villages, travellers and labourers in soft ink and pale colour wash, offering designers examples of compositional use of open space, diagonal paths and small figures set against wide landscapes.
