The Tales of Ise with Annotations (Ise Monogatari tōsho shō 伊勢物語頭書抄) : [volume 2]

Hishikawa, Moronobu, approximately 1618-approximately 1694 · 1679 · 11 pictures

The Tales of Ise with Annotations, volume 2, is a Japanese printed book of 1679 illustrated by Hishikawa Moronobu, an Edo-period artist, and based on the classical Ise monogatari tales. Its pages pair woodblock pictures of courtly figures in gardens and houses with dense columns of Japanese text and marginal notes. The pictures show elegant figures in landscape settings with simple outline line work, offering a designer clean, spare figure and interior compositions that sit well beside calligraphic text blocks.

Ise monogatari

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