Chats on Novelties of Foreign Lands (Kōmōzatsuwa 紅毛雑話) : [volume 5]
Kōmōzatsuwa is a Japanese woodblock-printed book of 1787 from Edo, compiled by Morishima Chūryō for a general readership curious about Dutch and foreign goods. Its pages pair ink drawings of footwear, a leg covering, a Dutch-style coat and a bird with short explanatory text in Japanese script. For designers, the pictures offer simple line-drawn objects with clean outlines, sparse hatching and strong figure-ground contrast, useful for minimal icon-like illustration.
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