Loyal Songs of Itako (Chūkō itakobushi) : [volume 4]
A Hokusai woodblock book printed in Edo in 1809 by the publishers Ishiwatari Risuke and Kadomaruya Jinsuke, volume 4 of a series of illustrated tales for a popular Japanese readership. Its double-page spreads show samurai and townspeople in gardens, wooden houses, and interiors, drawn in clean black outline with some hatched shading. A designer could take from them the compact staging of action within Japanese architecture, with framed doorways, verandas, and pine and bamboo settings.
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![Picture 2 of 5 from Loyal Songs of Itako (Chūkō itakobushi) : [volume 4] (1809), leaf 10](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_16559-10-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 5 from Loyal Songs of Itako (Chūkō itakobushi) : [volume 4] (1809), leaf 15](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_16559-15-1.webp)
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![Picture 5 of 5 from Loyal Songs of Itako (Chūkō itakobushi) : [volume 4] (1809), leaf 21](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_16559-21-1.webp)