畫本野山草 [5]

橘保國畫圖 · 1800 · 芸艸堂 · 27 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture book of wild plants, drawn by Tachibana Yasukuni and published in 1800 by Unsōdō, probably for artists and craftsmen who copied botanical forms. The pages show outlined flowers and leaves in ink with green wash, arranged loosely across the sheet with Japanese captions beside them, so a designer can take from them an economical, naturalistic botanical line style with flat tonal accents.

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