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楳嶺画譜 第1編 花鳥之部

幸野楳嶺 画 · 1886 · 笹田弥兵衛[ほか] · 29 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture album of birds and flowers, drawn by Kono Baiyo (Kōno Bairyō) and published in Kyoto in 1886 for general readers and artists learning the brush-and-ink manner. The four pictures show a duck among reeds, a hawk swooping over clover, a pair of owls in a tree, and birds perched on a pine-shaded rail, all in crisp black-and-white line with loose wash shading that a designer could borrow for asymmetric compositions and negative space.

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