小桜姫風月奇観 : 絵本 (後記)巻之4
This is a Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) by the writer Santō Kyōzan with illustrations by Utagawa Kunisada, published in Edo-period Japan by Okada Mohei and associates for a general reading public. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints showing interiors and gardens with verandas, shoji screens, lanterns and clipped shrubs, drawn with crisp inked outlines and dense hatching. A designer might take from them the strong figure-ground contrast, the layered perspective of raised verandas, and the rhythm of dark foliage against pale architecture.
