World of Fine Arts (Bijutsu Sekai) : [volume 9]

Watanabe, Seitei, 1851-1918 · 1891 · Tokyo : Shun’yōdō 春陽堂 · 11 pictures

A Meiji-period Japanese picture album, World of Fine Arts volume 9, published in Tokyo in 1891 by Shun'yōdō and made by the painter Watanabe Seitei, aimed at readers of Japanese fine art. Its pages pair colour woodblock-style prints of Buddhist figures, mounted warriors, a lotus-standing devotee and flowering plants with facing text in calligraphy, so a designer can study its layouts, cloud and wave shapes, and flat tonal palette of pink, sage and grey.

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