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絵本狂歌山満多山 第3冊

大原亭主人<大原亭炭方>//撰,北斎<葛飾北斎>//画, · 1801 · 蔦屋重三郎 · 19 pictures

An 1801 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) volume three of a kyoka comic-poetry collection, selected by Oharatei Shujin (Oharatei Tanpo) with pictures by Katsushika Hokusai, published by Tsutaya Juzaburo in Edo for a general readership of poetry lovers. Its woodblock pages show everyday scenes of townspeople, travellers and garden corners in soft colour with spare line work, offering a designer ideas for loose figure compositions, layered kimono patterns and simple landscape framing with bamboo fences and trees.

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