Japanese colour prints
Japanese colour prints is a 1923 New York survey by Laurence Binyon and J. J. O'Brien Sexton, published by Scribner for readers of Japanese woodblock art and its makers. The plates reproduce woodblock prints of kabuki actors, elegant women and street scenes, with black-and-white reproductions on some pages and tinted ones on others. A designer might take from them the flat colour fields, bold outlining, patterned kimono textiles and the way figures are grouped tightly against blank or sparse backgrounds.
