Watchtower Hill (Ehon monomigaoka 絵本物見岡) : [volume 1]
Watchtower Hill is a 1785 Japanese woodblock picture book in Edo, published by Iseya Kichijyūrō and made by the artist Torii Kiyonaga for travellers and readers interested in Edo's sights. Its double-page prints show women and townsfolk strolling through gardens, along river banks, past pine and blossom trees, and beside shrines, with poem columns running across the scenes, offering a designer clean outline figures, spacious landscape layering, and elegant crowd arrangements.
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