Loyal Songs of Itako (Chūkō itakobushi) : [volume 3]
A Japanese woodblock-printed illustrated book from Edo in 1809, issued by the publishers Ishiwatari Risuke and Kadomaruya Jinsuke and made by Katsushika Hokusai, likely for popular readers. Its pictures are ink line drawings of paired facing pages showing figures in traditional architecture, with fine hatched rooflines, shoji screens, and dense crowds of figures, offering a designer strong models for compressed perspective and clean linear composition.
![Picture 1 of 3 from Loyal Songs of Itako (Chūkō itakobushi) : [volume 3] (1809), leaf 5](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_16735-5-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 3 from Loyal Songs of Itako (Chūkō itakobushi) : [volume 3] (1809), leaf 15](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_16735-15-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 3 from Loyal Songs of Itako (Chūkō itakobushi) : [volume 3] (1809), leaf 21](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_16735-21-1.webp)