絵本廿四孝 4巻
A Japanese woodblock picture book in four volumes, made by Keisai Eisen as author and artist, published in 1844 by Izumiya Ichibee for a general readership of ehon buyers. The pages pair small outline illustrations of figures in landscape settings with columns of Japanese text, and the line work is fine and sparse with light grey wash. A designer could take from these the economical calligraphic line, the open landscape fragments, and the way text columns frame the figures.
