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村田, 幸吉, 村田幸吉 編 · 1 picture

A Japanese picture-book publisher's seal collection, compiled by Murata Kōkichi, presumably for the trade in illustrated books (ehon) in Japan. The single picture is a red-ink publisher's mark: two birds with plumed heads flank a central knot and scrolled ornaments, with curled cloud-like forms at the sides and base. A designer might take from it the symmetrical, bilateral layout of a heraldic-style mark built from scrolls, ribbons and paired creatures, rendered in a single flat colour.

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