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考古画譜 4

黒川春村 著, 古川躬行 編, 黒川真頼 補 · 1901 · 東京帝室博物館 · 25 pictures

A Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) from 1901, compiled by Kurokawa Harumura with Furukawa Mikō and revised by Kurokawa Mayori, published by the Tokyo Imperial Museum for antiquarian study of historical pictures. Its pictures are clean black-line drawings of interiors, verandas, gardens and figures in period dress, with pine trees and folding screens rendered in simple hatching, offering a designer clear models of Japanese domestic architecture and line-based 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