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小学日本画帖 5

深田直城 画 · 1900 · 細謹舎 · 13 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book of ink-brush plant studies, drawn by Fukada Naoki and published in 1900 by Saikinsha for students learning Japanese painting. The pictures are plain black-line sketches of branches, flowers, leaves and fruit, with seal stamps in the margins, and a designer could draw on their economical contour line and open white ground for simple botanical motifs.

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