絵本古金襴 3巻 [1]

鈴木春信画 · 1763 · 西宮新六[ほか1名] · 21 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) in three volumes, illustrated by Suzuki Harunobu and published in 1763 by Nishimiya Shinroku and a partner, aimed at a general reading public. The pictures are monochrome line drawings with fine hatching: a woman at a window with a pipe, a figure resting beneath a flowering tree with poem slips above, a woman reading by a plum-branch screen, and a porter on a mountain path. A designer might take the economical contour line, the patterned kimono textiles, and the layered framing of interior and landscape.

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