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小桜姫風月奇観 : 絵本 (後記)巻之3

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This is a Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) by the writer Santō Kyōzan with illustrations by Utagawa Kunisada, published by Okada Mohei and associates, likely in Edo in the nineteenth century. Its woodblock-style pages show dense black-and-white compositions of wooden structures collapsing into rushing water, and figures among tangled trees and bamboo, with bold diagonal lines and heavy inked masses a designer could borrow for strong graphic composition.

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