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閣竜世界博覧会美術品画譜 第1集

久保田米僊 画 · 1894 · 大倉書店 · 27 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book of artworks from the 1894 Kōkyō world exposition, illustrated by Kubota Beisen and published by Ōkura Shoten in Tokyo for collectors and art readers. Its pictures are monochrome woodblock-style prints of vases, ceramic ware, and decorative motifs with carefully drawn ornament, offering designers examples of East Asian scrolling, cloud, and animal patterns that could inform historical ornament work.

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