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絵本ふちはかま 2巻

絳山樵夫 作, 柳川重信 画 · 1836 · 和泉屋市兵衛 [ほか4名] · 15 pictures

This is a Japanese illustrated picture book, volume 2, published in 1836 by Izumiya Ichibei and four others, with text by Kōzan Shōfu and illustrations by Yanagawa Shigenobu for a general reading public. Its double-page woodblock prints show courtly and garden scenes in flat colour, with pale washes, carefully ruled architecture and clustered figures a designer could use for patterned or narrative layouts.

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