Pictures of Famous Places along the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō meisho zue 東海道名所図絵)
A Japanese woodblock-printed guidebook of 1849 by Andō Hiroshige, illustrating famous scenic places along the Tōkaidō road for travellers and armchair readers. The pages pair pale, wash-like landscapes of pines, hills, lakes and thatched huts with columns of calligraphic verse, showing how a designer can use open horizontal bands of mist and sparse, layered tree silhouettes to structure text and image together.
