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画本唐詩選五言絶句 2冊

葛飾北斎 画, 高田彰一郎 (緑雲) 書 · 1880 · 嵩山房 · 55 pictures

A two-volume Japanese picture book of Tang poetry, five-character quatrains, illustrated by Katsushika Hokusai and calligraphed by Takada Shōichirō, published in 1880 by Shūzandō. Its pages pair a poem's columns of brush calligraphy with a crisp black-and-white woodblock scene of figures in gardens, walls, and landscapes, and a designer might take its compact framing of text beside image and its clean, hatched line work for editorial layouts.

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