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芳文画帖 乙

菊池芳文 画 · 1902 · 山田芸艸堂 · 12 pictures

A Japanese picture album (ehon) of paintings by Kikuchi Hōbun, published in 1902 by Yamada Unsōdō. It is a bound collection of individual painted leaves, with the pictures shown here in black-and-white reproduction. The images are monochrome ink-style scenes of mountains, pines, and birds, which a designer could use for sparse, tonal compositions with plenty of negative space.

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