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絵本殿下茶屋聚 [3]

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This is an ehon, a Japanese picture book from the Edo period, here with its title in calligraphic script. The page shows only a fragment of vertical brush-written text on tan paper, with no clear illustration visible, so the image reads as a textual page rather than a picture; a designer might take from it the rhythm of loose vertical calligraphy and the warm aged paper tone.

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