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深田直城 画 · 1900 · 細謹舎 · 21 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon, a primer of brush painting for schoolchildren, illustrated by Fukada Naoki and published by Saikinsha in 1900. Its pictures are simple ink brushwork exercises: a single confident stroke, a circle, a square set inside a ring, and a red seal-like mark, showing how a few economical lines carry form and balance on a plain white field.

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