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美術花鳥画譜

安達吟光 画 · 1893 · 金盛堂 · 43 pictures

This Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book from 1893, illustrated by Adachi Ginko and published by Kinseido, presents botanical and flower studies for a general audience of artists and print readers. Its woodblock-printed pages show isolated flowers, buds, and leaves drawn in crisp outline with dense black ink masses, arranged on the page with spare ground and Chinese-style inscriptions beside them, offering designers strong models for compositional economy and bold silhouette against white 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