Famous Places in Owari (Meiku shōkei nihen) : [volume 4]

Katsukawa, Shunkō 1743-1812 · 1848 · Nagoya: Chitoseen　千歳園 · 12 pictures

A Japanese woodblock-printed picture book of famous scenic places in Owari, published in Nagoya in 1848 by Chitoseen and drawn by Katsukawa Shunkō, who worked in the 1700s and early 1800s. Each opening pairs two landscape prints with poems in Japanese calligraphy on the facing page, so the book was made for a general reading audience. The pictures use soft blues, greens and pinks with small figures among pines, shorelines, shrines and village rooftops, offering a designer quiet, layered landscape compositions with clean horizon lines and generous negative space.

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