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絵本椿説弓張月

北斎老人 画 · 1888 · 羽田賢 · 24 pictures

This is a Japanese illustrated fiction book, an ehon picture book, drawn by the elderly Hokusai and published in Tokyo in 1888 by Hada Ken for a general readership. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style scenes of crowded outdoor action, mountain paths, and tiled-roof architecture, with dense hatching in foliage and rock that a designer could borrow for textured line work and dynamic crowd compositions.

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