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直彦画譜

熊谷直彦 画, 福島甲子三 編 · 1910 · 画報社 · 118 pictures

Naohiko Kumagai's Chokugen gafu, edited by Fukushima Kishizō and published by Gahōsha in 1910, is a Japanese ehon picture book of landscapes and figures printed for an art-learning audience. The four scanned pictures are heavily dithered, low-contrast monochrome views of rocky shores, a mountain valley with a stream, a pine-covered hillside, and a distant figure, so a designer might take from them loose tonal composition, scattered halftone texture, and the silhouette of rock and foliage against pale ground.

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