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絵本千代の春

禿帚子 作, 石川豊信 画 · 44 pictures

Chiyo no Haru is an Edo-period Japanese picture book (ehon) written by Tokuso Shishi and illustrated by Ishikawa Toyonobu, printed in woodblock with Japanese text running in columns beside the scenes. The pictures show indoor and garden scenes of seated figures in patterned kimono, with simple line work and light tinting, offering a designer clean linear figure drawing, interior perspective with tatami and sliding screens, and compact composition for narrative panels.

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