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絵本諸芸錦

鈴木春信 画 · 1763 · 山崎金兵衛 · 65 pictures

Eshōn Shogei Nishiki (Picture Book of Many Arts) is an Edo-period Japanese woodblock picture book illustrated by Suzuki Harunobu and published by Yamazaki Kinbei in 1763, aimed at a general urban readership. Its pages show interiors, gardens and figures in courtly and samurai dress engaged in music, games and gatherings, drawn in fine ink line on a warm buff ground with light tinting and calligraphic cartouches, a useful reference for flat, linear figure design and decorative pattern.

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