Picture Book of the Eternal Pines (Ehon chiyo no matsu 絵本千代の松) : [volume 2]
A volume of Japanese woodblock-printed picture book from Edo, published in 1767 by Yamazaki Kinbei and made by the artist Suzuki Harunobu for a general readership of urban viewers. The pages pair spare ink-line scenes of women, rain, fire and rustic gardens with short poems in cursive script beside each image. A designer could take from them the economical contour line, open white space, and the way text and image share a page as a single composition.
![Picture 1 of 7 from Picture Book of the Eternal Pines (Ehon chiyo no matsu 絵本千代の松) : [volume 2] (1767), leaf 2](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_11027-2-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 7 from Picture Book of the Eternal Pines (Ehon chiyo no matsu 絵本千代の松) : [volume 2] (1767), leaf 4](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_11027-4-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 7 from Picture Book of the Eternal Pines (Ehon chiyo no matsu 絵本千代の松) : [volume 2] (1767), leaf 5](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_11027-5-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 7 from Picture Book of the Eternal Pines (Ehon chiyo no matsu 絵本千代の松) : [volume 2] (1767), leaf 7](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_11027-7-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 7 from Picture Book of the Eternal Pines (Ehon chiyo no matsu 絵本千代の松) : [volume 2] (1767), leaf 8](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_11027-8-1.webp)
![Picture 6 of 7 from Picture Book of the Eternal Pines (Ehon chiyo no matsu 絵本千代の松) : [volume 2] (1767), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_11027-9-1.webp)
![Picture 7 of 7 from Picture Book of the Eternal Pines (Ehon chiyo no matsu 絵本千代の松) : [volume 2] (1767), leaf 10](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_11027-10-1.webp)