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崋山画譜 一

1911 · 吉川弘文館 · 17 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture book of brush-painted birds, flowers and branches, published in 1911 by Yoshikawa Kobunkan, drawn from the painting manual of Watanabe Kazan. The pictures are monochrome ink-brush studies of single birds perched on bare or leafy branches, with loose sketched foliage and open white ground, showing a designer how economical brushwork and negative space can suggest form and atmosphere.

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