Chats on Novelties of Foreign Lands (Kōmōzatsuwa 紅毛雑話) : [volume 4]
A Japanese woodblock-printed book of 1787 from Edo, published by Suharaya Ichibei and written by Morishima Chūryō, presenting Western knowledge to a Japanese readership, with this volume drawing on Gérard de Lairesse's Dutch art treatise. The pictures are plain line drawings of human anatomy: faces built from circles and guide lines, full figures with horizontal measuring lines, and hands and feet laid out for study. A designer could take from them the construction method of proportional grids and the clean, diagrammatic way of showing body parts.
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