一白圃艸木画譜 2巻 [2]

斎藤, 兼光, 斎藤兼光 · 43 pictures

This is a Japanese picture book of plant studies, issued in two volumes and attributed to Saitō Kanemitsu, a Japanese artist working in the ehon tradition of woodblock-printed illustrated books. The pictures show botanical subjects in soft, washed colours of green, pink, yellow and pale blue on a cream ground, with handwritten Japanese plant names beside them. A designer might take from them the loose, airy spacing of single flowering stems, the restrained palette, and the way annotated captions sit alongside the drawings.

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