絵本福寿草 3巻 [3]

大岡春卜編, 大岡春川画 · 1737 · 須原屋茂兵衛 · 26 pictures

An 18th-century Japanese ehon picture book, volume 3, compiled by Ōoka Shunboku and illustrated by Ōoka Shunsen, published in Edo in 1737 by Suharaya Mohei for general readers and plant enthusiasts. Its pages show monthly botanical studies of flowering plants with handwritten seasonal month labels and Japanese captions beside each drawing. For designers, the pages offer delicate ink line work with sparse grey-green wash, asymmetric placement of stems across the page, and cloud-shaped cartouches framing the text.

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