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潜竜堂画譜 3 花鳥之部,

滝沢清 著 · 1882 · 松崎半造 · 51 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture book of flower and bird subjects, published in 1882 in Meiji-era Japan by Matsuzaki Hanzō from a text by Takizawa Kiyoshi, intended as a model collection for artists and students of painting. Its pictures are fine black-line woodblock drawings on plain white paper, with birds perched among chrysanthemum, plum blossom, maple and pine, and a designer could take from them the economy of single contour lines and open white space that frames a single motif.

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