花壇叢木画譜 6巻 [2]

1813 · 松本新助 [ほか6名] · 50 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book of flowers and plants, printed in Edo in 1813 by the publisher Matsumoto Shinsuke and associates, likely for amateur painters and garden enthusiasts. Its pages show flower heads and leaves drawn in clean, confident ink outlines with light shading, with handwritten Japanese plant names set beside each study, giving a designer ready examples of botanical line work and simple, economical composition.

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