Encyclopedia of Western Art (Kōmō zatsuwa 紅毛雑話) : [volume 2]

Morishima, Chūryō,‏ ‎1754-1810?‏ · 1787 · Edo : Suharaya Ichibei · 2 pictures

Kōmō zatsuwa is a 1787 Edo encyclopedia of Western subjects by Morishima Chūryō, published by Suharaya Ichibei for a Japanese reading public curious about Europe. Its woodblock pages pair brief Japanese captions with simple line drawings, one a landscape of palms and a winding path under hills, the other a machine-like device with a stone arch and a figure beside it. A designer might take its economical ink contours, open spacing of landscape, and text set beside images as a model for explanatory diagrams.

Mountains -- Religious aspects

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