絵本楠公記 10巻 [4]

山田得翁斎作, 速水春暁斎画 · 1800 · 田中吉兵衛[ほか6名] · 49 pictures

This is an 1800 Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) in ten volumes, with text by Yamada Tokuōsai and illustrations by Hayami Shungyosai, published by Tanaka Kichibei and six partners, for popular readers of the Edo period. Its pages show architecture and figures in the ink-line style of the era, with rooflines, wooden verandas, pine trees and water cut into the block; a designer might borrow its layered perspective and sparse, calligraphic linework for compositions of interiors seen from above.

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