官材画譜 [2]

土屋秀世 [著], 松村寛一画 · 48 pictures

This Japanese picture book, titled Kanzai gafu volume 2, was made by the author Tsuchiya Hideyo with illustrations by Matsumura Kan'ichi, a Japanese ehon for general readers of the period. The woodblock-style pictures show men guiding timber logs down rocky rapids and cliffs, with long poles and stacked logs drawn in fine parallel lines over water. A designer might take from them the rhythm of diagonal log rows against wave patterns and the flat, hatched rendering of rock and water.

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