絵本徒然草 : 祐信画鑑 中
This is a Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) from 1900, published by Kōbundō Funai Seitarō, reproducing woodblock prints by Nishikawa Sukenobu, an eighteenth-century Kyoto artist, after the classic essays of Tsurezuregusa. The pages show courtly scenes of aristocratic interiors with figures in layered robes, verandas, and cloud-patterned screens, with calligraphic text columns beside each image. A designer could take their clean linear line work, economical spatial layering, and tiled roof and screen compositions as a model for flat, outlined graphics.
