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伊藤若冲 [画] · 1910 · 芸艸堂 · 44 pictures

A Japanese picture album (ehon) of the Edo painter Itō Jakuchū's work, published in 1910 by Geisōdō in Tokyo for collectors and artists. The four pictures are white-line woodblock style prints of plants: rising stems, leaves and blossoms cut in bold white shapes against a dense black ground, with a strong graphic economy a designer could borrow for botanical patterns or high-contrast surface 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