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歌川豊国三世画 · 53 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture album of landscapes, credited to the artist Utagawa Toyokuni III (Kunisada), with the record giving no date or place of publication beyond its subject heading. Its pages are outline drawings of rural scenes in ink with sparse green-tinted pine foliage and tiny figures travelling along roads and riverbanks, so a designer could borrow its economical line work, open horizons and placement of small figures against large trees.

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