Nihongi : chronicles of Japan from the earliest times to A.D. 697
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 is a historical chronicle translated by W. G. Aston and published in London in 1896 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. for the Japan Society. The single plate shows a robed figure standing among reeds beside water, with stylised clouds and a caption beneath the frame. A designer might take its clean outline line work, sparse background, and patterned cloud forms as a model for restrained, flat graphic illustration.
