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玉泉習画帖 簡易科 2

望月玉泉 著・画 · 1892 · 田中治兵衛 · 15 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese drawing primer (ehon) by Mochizuki Gyokusen, published in 1892 by Tanaka Jirobei, meant for students learning to draw in a simple course. The pictures are crisp black-and-white woodblock-style sketches of a cluster of round forms on a branch, a flowering sprig with leaves, a pentagon with numbered corners, and a spiral diagram with Chinese numerals, so a designer can take their bold graphic silhouettes and clear step-by-step structure.

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