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禿氏祐祥 編 · 1922 · 仏教芸術院 · 32 pictures

A 1922 Japanese catalogue of picture-book (ehon) illustrations compiled by Tokuji Yūshō and published by the Bukkyō Geijutsuin in Japan, presenting woodblock-style prints as small paired plates. The pictures show calligraphic poem slips and fan-like cards set against pine needles, grasses, waves with a boat, and falling autumn leaves, with a few woven or grid patterns. A designer might take from them the economy of ink-line drawing, the placement of vertical text beside pictorial motifs, and the framing of images into cards.

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