Collection of Famous Kyōka Poems Selected by Shakuyakutei (Shakuyakutei eisō kōryō shū) : [volume 1]

Shakuyakutei Nagane, ‏1767-1845 · 1833 · Japan : [producer not identified] · 5 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock-printed poetry anthology of kyoka (comic waka) verse, compiled by the Edo-period artist-poet Shakuyakutei Nagane and published in 1833. Its double-page spreads pair calligraphic poem columns with colour prints of courtly and townsfolk scenes, including women in interiors beneath blossoming plum, a moonlit riverside with a seated man and a woman with a tray, and a bank of peonies on the cover. A designer could take the restrained palette of pale blue, sage, and rose, the flat outlined figures, and the poem-and-picture layouts as models for framing text beside image.

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