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明黄鳳池輯 · 1710 · 中川茂兵衞刊 · 46 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture book printed in 1710 by Nakagawa Mohei, compiled from a Ming-dynasty Chinese model by Huang Fengchi, and intended for painters and students of flower-and-plant drawing. Its pictures are monochrome woodblock prints of lilies, orchids, bamboo, peonies and rocks, drawn in fine, economical line with dark green tint and set against pale mottled paper. A designer could take their clean contour linework, sparse tonal shading and balanced asymmetric compositions as a reference for botanical 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