Picture Book of Essays in Idleness (Ehon tsurezuregusa)
An 1740 Kyoto picture book, the Ehon tsurezuregusa, issued by the publisher Kikuya Kihei and illustrated by Nishikawa Sukenobu, adapting Kenko's classic essays for a general readership. The woodblock pages pair open double spreads of figures, buildings and gardens with short calligraphic text panels above, giving a designer clear examples of Edo-period line drawing, compositional framing and the layering of image and script on a page.
