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浮世絵と風景画

小島烏水 著 · 1914 · 前川文栄閣 · 33 pictures

A Japanese-language study of ukiyo-e and landscape prints by Kojima Usui, published in Tokyo by Maekawa Buneikaku in 1914, aimed at readers interested in Japanese picture books. The pictures are small, grainy black-and-white reproductions of woodblock prints and painted scrolls, showing hillside scenes, boats on water, a figure on a cliff path, and a rooftop street with a hanging sign; a designer might take from them the layered compositions, diagonal rain-like strokes, and dark silhouetted rock masses.

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