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Picture Book of Ogura Hill (Ehon ogurayama)

Nishikawa, Sukenobu, 1671-1751 · 1749 · 30 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book by Nishikawa Sukenobu, published in 1749, illustrating waka poems from the Ogura Hundred Poems with scenes of courtly figures, landscapes and seasonal settings. The pages show sparse line drawings beside columns of calligraphy, offering a designer examples of economical linework, pictorial framing of text, and quiet asymmetric page layout.

Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art · No known copyright restrictions · More from this library