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華山画譜 下

人見甚四郎 編 · 1880 · 瀬山直次郎 · 30 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture-manual of 1880, compiled by Hitomi Shinshirō (人見甚四郎) and published by Seyama Naojirō in Japan, meant as a model book for drawing and painting. Its pages show rows of small bald-headed children in loose robes, drawn in ink with light grey wash and crisp contour lines, posed in kneeling, reaching, reading and playful gestures that a designer could borrow for simple figure studies with a clear, economical line.

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