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牧金之助 編 · 1890 · 牧金之助 · 1 picture

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and published by him in 1890, presenting a historical chronicle of the Kusunoki family's three generations in woodblock-style line illustration. The single pictured plate shows a figure in a conical woven straw hat standing amid tufted grass, drawn in sparse, loose ink strokes on a faded page; a designer could take its economical linework and open negative space as a model for minimal, hand-drawn figure work.

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