Illustrations of Chinese Poems Chosen from Toshisen's Book (Tōshisen ehon 唐詩撰畫本) : [volume 2]
A woodblock-printed Edo-period volume of Chinese poems illustrated by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Edo in 1833 by Kobayashi Shinbei for a readership of literate Japanese. The pictures are fine black-line ink drawings facing pages of dense vertical Japanese text, showing scholars, travellers and landscapes in a light, economical brushwork a designer could borrow for narrative vignettes or framed panels.
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