Views of Instructions for Bonsai along the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi hachiyama zue) : [volume 2]
A Japanese woodblock picture book of 1848, published in Osaka by Ōkanoya Kamesaburō and others and credited to Utagawa Yoshishige, that presents bonsai and miniature landscape arrangements in pots. The pages show each arrangement in a framed panel with a seal and a short inscription, and a designer could take from them the compact, asymmetrical way the trees, rocks and water are composed within a single container, along with the restrained palette of pale washes, blue-green foliage and dark ink outlines.
![Picture 1 of 3 from Views of Instructions for Bonsai along the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi hachiyama zue) : [volume 2] (1848), leaf 1](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18638-1-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 3 from Views of Instructions for Bonsai along the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi hachiyama zue) : [volume 2] (1848), leaf 11](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18638-11-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 3 from Views of Instructions for Bonsai along the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi hachiyama zue) : [volume 2] (1848), leaf 13](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18638-13-1.webp)