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西川祐信画 · 1742 · 梅村弥右衛門[ほか5名] · 86 pictures

This is an 1742 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) in nine volumes plus a supplementary volume, illustrated by Nishikawa Sukenobu and published by Umemura Yaemon and five others in Japan, aimed at general readers of popular fiction. Its woodblock-printed pages show hillside landscapes with rivers, pine trees, and rustic houses, with a figure seated on a veranda and a deer in the distance, all drawn in fine, economical ink lines with handwritten poetry columns above. A designer might borrow the sparse linework, the cropped compositional framing, and the way water, cloud, and rock are suggested by a few strokes.

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