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Famous Places in Owari (Meiku shōkei shohen) : [volume 1]

Katsukawa, Shunkō 1743-1812 · 1847 · Nagoya: Chitoseen千歳園 · 17 pictures

A Japanese woodblock-printed volume of famous scenic places in Owari, published in Nagoya in 1847 by Chitoseen and attributed to the painter Katsukawa Shunkō (1743-1812), presented as a guide for readers of landscape views. Its double-page spreads pair poem text in columns with small landscape prints in soft blue, green and ochre, showing coastlines, pine-covered hills, distant mountains and boats on water, a design source for calm, layered horizon compositions and restrained colour palettes.

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