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絵本狂歌山満多山 第2冊

大原亭主人<大原亭炭方>//撰,北斎<葛飾北斎>//画, · 1801 · 蔦屋重三郎 · 20 pictures

This is a Japanese illustrated kyoka poetry book, Volume 2 of Ehon Kyoka Yamamanta, compiled by Ōharatei Shujin (Ōharatei Tanpō) with illustrations by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Edo in 1801 by Tsutaya Jūzaburō for a readership of poetry enthusiasts. Its pictures show elegant women and attendants in urban and garden settings, drawn in soft colour with brief calligraphic verse above, offering a designer a clear model of how figures, lantern-lit streets and framing text can share one page.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library