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光琳扇面画帖

小林文七 編 · 1901 · 小林文七 · 22 pictures

A Japanese picture album of fan-shaped paintings compiled by Kobayashi Bunshichi and published in Tokyo in 1901, after the designs of the Rinpa painter Ogata Kōrin. The four pictures show bold black silhouettes of flowering branches, stylised leaves, and a curling wave-like motif on plain white grounds, with a designer able to borrow their stark figure-ground contrast and economical brushwork for graphic pattern.

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