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諸職画譜

北尾蕙斎 · 1794 · 須原屋市兵衛 · 156 pictures

Shokushoku gafu is a late eighteenth-century Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1794 by Suharaya Ichibei in Edo and compiled by Kitao Keisai for a general readership of artists and craftsmen. Its pages show loose ink sketches of Chinese immortals, sages and folk figures, drawn in quick, economical brushlines on pale paper with small kana glosses beside them, offering a designer studies of gesture, drapery and caricatured expression.

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