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1890 · 井上市松 · 1 picture

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1890 by Inoue Ichimatsu, illustrating the life of the Buddhist teacher Nichiren for a general readership. The single woodblock-style plate shows a robed monk seated on a rocky shore beneath a dark sky where swirling dragon-like clouds or serpentine shapes streak across the picture. A designer might take the bold black-and-white contrast, the wave patterns rendered as repeated curved lines, and the framed text panel with vertical Japanese characters as a model for dramatic 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