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桃渓 輯 · 1900 · 松山堂書店 · 56 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture book of woodblock-style prints compiled by Tōkei and published in 1900 by Shōzandō Shoten in Japan, meant as a model collection of painting for artists and students. The pictures show pine branches with needles, plum or cherry blossom sprays, a rocky cliff with a small hut and distant hills, and a figure with a carried load beside a riverbank, with calligraphic colophons. A designer could draw on the bold black-and-white brushlike contouring, the economy of white space around rocks and branches, and the compact vertical framing of each scene.

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