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日本歴史図会 第11輯

古谷知新 編 · 1921 · 国民図書 · 163 pictures

A Japanese history picture book, volume 11 of the Nihon rekishi zue, compiled by Furuya Tomochika and published in Tokyo by Kokumin Tosho in 1921, in the woodblock-derived ehon tradition for general readers. Its black-and-white line illustrations show courtly and domestic scenes with figures in robes, pine trees, gardens, wooden verandas and columns of text in boxes, offering a designer strong examples of traditional Japanese composition with flat planes, diagonal floor lines and framed vignettes.

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