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祐信画鑑 : 絵本徒然草

西川祐信 画 · 1894 · 博文館 · 88 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1894 by Hakubunkan, illustrated by Nishikawa Sukenobu, with its pictures drawn after the classic essays of the Tsurezuregusa. The pages show finely inked black-line scenes of figures on verandas, a figure beside a hill-lined path, and a stream with running figures, each framed by columns of handwritten calligraphy, offering a designer clear, economical line work and a model of Edo-period compositional layering.

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