The Tales of Ise with Annotations (Ise Monogatari tōsho shō 伊勢物語頭書抄) : [volume 1]
A Japanese woodblock-printed volume from 1679 by Hishikawa Moronobu, an illustrated edition of the classical Tales of Ise with annotations in the margins and between the lines of text. The pages are double-spread with framed scenes of courtly figures in landscapes, pavilions and garden settings beside dense columns of kana script. Designers can take its compact framed-panel layouts and the economical black line work with flat, sparse ground tone as a model for pairing images with dense text.
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