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絵本詞の花 2巻

喜多川歌麿 画 · 1787 · 27 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book from 1787, volume 2, illustrated by Kitagawa Utamaro for a general readership, with woodblock prints of everyday scenes. The pictures show figures in kimono on plank bridges, a plum-blossom garden, a veranda, and a pine tree beside a fence, rendered in fine, economical ink line with calligraphy in the margins, suggesting restrained layouts a designer could borrow for quiet narrative vignettes and sparse, line-led compositions.

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