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西川祐信 [画], 稀書複製会 編 · 1928 · 米山堂 · 29 pictures

This is a 1928 facsimile reprint, published by Yonezandō and produced by the Kisho Fukusei Kai from Nishikawa Sukenobu's woodblock picture book Ehon Tamakazura, the upper volume, showing Japanese court and everyday life. Its prints are crisp black line drawings with few tones, so a designer could take from them the patterned kimono textures, the flat spatial layering of screens and verandas, and the calligraphic speech clouds.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library