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鈴木春信 画, 稀書複製会 編 · 1922 · 米山堂 · 18 pictures

A 1922 Japanese reprint of a Suzuki Harunobu picture book, the Ehon Zoku Edo Miyage (middle volume), published in Tokyo by Yoneyamado from the Rare Book Reproduction Society's edition. The pages are woodblock-style line illustrations of Edo townsfolk, gardens, plum blossoms and bridges, each framed by handwritten columns of verse text, offering a designer compositional tableaux and calligraphic framing in the Edo ukiyo-e manner.

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