絵本吾妻抉 [3]

北尾重政画 · 1797 · 和泉屋源七 · 45 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the third volume of the Ehon Azumakagami, illustrated by Kitao Shigemasa and published in Edo in 1797 by Izumiya Genshichi for a general readership of townspeople. Its pictures show travellers on a path beside a marsh, seated figures and a fishing or boating scene by water, and a boy reaching toward a woman under a broad hat; a designer might take from them the economy of ink line, the open landscape layouts, and the way figures are placed at the edges of the frame.

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