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巾箱画譜

佐野元恭 著 · 1880 · 辻本信太郎 · 122 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture manual (ehon) printed in 1880 by Tsujimoto Shintaro, credited to Sano Motoyuki, offering模 model landscape and plant studies for artists and craftsmen. The pictures show ink-line trees, pines, bamboo, rocky outcrops, distant mountains, boats on water and small thatched buildings, drawn with economical contour strokes and open white ground that a designer could borrow for simple line motifs, border vignettes or quiet landscape compositions.

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