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耶馬渓画帖

1890 · 諏訪音吉 · 22 pictures

A Japanese picture album (ehon) published in 1890 by the publisher Suwa Otokichi, containing black-and-white landscape prints of the Yabakei gorge region. The images are woodblock-style line drawings with dense ink hatching on craggy rock formations, pine trees, streams and small figures, offering a designer examples of East Asian ink-brush scenic composition, with tall pinnacles and sparse foreground planes set against open 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