畫本野山草 [2]

橘保國畫圖 · 1800 · 芸艸堂 · 25 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) of wild plants, illustrated by Tachibana Yasukuni and dated 1800, with its Japanese title and publisher Unsôdô. Its pages show botanical studies of flowering plants drawn with fine, even outlines and light tonal shading on cream paper. A designer could take its economical line work, the open placement of single plants on the page, and its handwritten Japanese labels as a model for botanical or minimal illustration.

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