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鮮斎永濯 画 · 1888 · 博聞社 · 22 pictures

A Meiji-period Japanese picture book (ehon) illustrated by Sensai Eitaku and published by Hakubunsha in 1888, showing children's games and pastimes. The pictures are monochrome woodblock-style prints of small figures in gardens, rooms and riverside settings, with pine trees and paper screens. A designer might draw on their clean line work, dense black masses of foliage and simple flat figure groupings for pattern and layout ideas.

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