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画本唐詩選五言絶句 1冊

葛飾北斎 画, 高田彰一郎 (緑雲) 書 · 1880 · 嵩山房 · 55 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Sūzanbō, with illustrations by Katsushika Hokusai and calligraphy by Takada Shōichirō, presenting five-character quatrains of Tang poetry for a general readership. The four pictures are crisp ink line drawings with boxed columns of vertical Chinese characters and small landscape or figure scenes, showing a designer how economical black line and hatched texture can suggest trees, water, and rock without shading.

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