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袖珍必携諸職画譜 2集

滝沢清 画 · 1881 · 松崎半造 · 51 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) of 1881, published by Matsuzaki Hanzō and illustrated by Takizawa Kiyoshi, intended as a pocket reference for craftsmen and artisans. Its pages show plants, flowers, insects, landscapes with temples and hills, and bridges drawn in clean black outline with little shading, offering designers a compact vocabulary of simplified natural motifs and line-based composition.

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