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写生画譜木花之部

滝沢清 画 · 1891 · いろは書房 · 31 pictures

A Japanese woodblock-printed ehon, a botanical sketch manual of flowering trees and shrubs (木花之部) drawn by Takizawa Kiyoshi and published by Iroha Shobo in 1891, intended as a model book for students of flower painting. The pictures are plain black-line drawings of blossoming branches with calligraphic captions beside them, showing how to build a sprig from a few curving stems, clustered blooms and buds, useful for linear botanical motifs, pattern repeats and spare ink-line decoration.

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