Picture Book of Komatsubara (Ehon komatsubara)
Picture Book of Komatsubara is an 1761 Japanese illustrated book published in Kyoto by Kikuya Kihei, made by the artist Nishikawa Sukenobu (1671-1751) for a popular readership. Its pages are ink line drawings in the Japanese woodblock print tradition, showing courtly and townspeople figures in interiors, streets and rain-swept landscapes. A designer could take from them the economical contour line, the patterned kimono textiles and the open, asymmetric page composition across facing spreads.
