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文林画譜 2

佐野元恭 著 · 1883 · 渡辺貞吉 · 131 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) of Chinese-style landscapes, compiled by Sano Motoyasu and published in 1883 by Watanabe Teikichi for painters and students of the literati manner. Its pages show ink-line mountains, pine trees, thatched pavilions and small boats with sparse calligraphic inscriptions, offering a designer clean linework, economical negative space and a model of how distant peaks and foreground trees are layered.

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