絵本野山草 5巻 [5]

橘, 保国, 橘保国画 · 1806 · 柳原喜兵衛 · 27 pictures

An 1806 Japanese picture book, Ehon nozuyama-gusa volume 5, illustrated by Tachibana Yasukuni and published by Yanagiharа Kihei in Edo for general readers of botanical and nature subjects. The pages are woodblock prints of wild plants, with green-inked leaves and blossoms outlined in black on pale mottled paper, some with Japanese captions in the margins. A designer might take its economical line drawing, the flat green and black palette, and the stylised arrangement of stems and leaves across the page.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

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