絵本倭比事 9巻付巻1巻 [4]

西川祐信画 · 1742 · 梅村弥右衛門[ほか5名] · 67 pictures

This is a Japanese picture book (ehon) from 1742, illustrated by Nishikawa Sukenobu and published by Umemura Yaemon with associates in Japan, likely for a general reading public. Its woodblock pages show courtly and domestic scenes drawn in fine, economical line, with plum branches, wooden verandas and diagonal railings that give a designer clean compositional structure and a strong sense of architectural space.

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