A Diary of Travel from Edo to Nagasaki (Saiyū ryodan, 西遊旅譚) : [volume 1]
A Diary of Travel from Edo to Nagasaki is a woodblock-printed travel account in Japanese, volume 1, written by Shiba Kōkan (c. 1738–1818) and published in Osaka in 1803 by Kawachiya Tasuke for general readers interested in Japan. The pages pair boxed landscape views with columns of handwritten-style text, and the pictures show coastlines, layered mountains, sailing boats, pine-lined shores and a distant snow-capped peak drawn in clean, economical line work that suggests a sparse, atmospheric approach to landscape composition a designer could borrow for minimal layouts.
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