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原坦山 著 · 1884 · 仏仙社 · 5 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese book of 1884 by Hara Tanzan, published by Busensha, whose pictures are large black brush-written Chinese characters rendered in bold ink strokes. The images are bold, dramatic and high-contrast, with grey dry-brush halos and stipple texture, giving a designer strong gestural shapes and expressive calligraphic lettering for hand-drawn type or ink-brush display work.

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