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田口米舫 編 · 1921 · 至敬堂 · 28 pictures

A 1921 Japanese picture book of calligraphy and painting by Wu Changshuo, compiled by Taguchi Beifu and published by Shikeidō in Japan, reproducing his hanging scrolls in black-and-white photographs. The pictures are ink paintings of flowering branches, chrysanthemums and rocks, with inscriptions in columns beside the images, offering a designer examples of economical brush contour, wet ink washes and asymmetrical composition set against blank paper.

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