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華山画譜

人見甚四郎 編 · 1882 · 村田友二郎 · 55 pictures

Huashan gahu is a Japanese picture manual (ehon) compiled by Hito Mi Shinshiro and published by Murata Tomojiro in 1882, presumably for artists and students learning Chinese-derived painting styles. Its pictures are monochrome woodblock prints of landscapes, trees, rocky cliffs, a small hut, and a perched bird, drawn with spare, brushlike ink lines and open white ground that a designer could adapt for minimal sketch-style motifs, rock forms, or tree silhouettes.

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