職人歌合画本 [4]

伴信友 · 1838 · 伴信友写 · 42 pictures

A hand-painted Japanese picture book from 1838, copied out by Ban Nobutomo, depicting working people and craftsmen in the ehon tradition of colored line drawings. The pictures show figures in the middle of their trades, drawn with fine ink outlines and light washes of blue, ochre and red on warm paper. A designer could draw on the economical contour lines, flat color fills and the way each figure's tools are shown beside them.

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