A Picture Book Mirror of Various Occupations (Wakoku shoshoku ezukushi) : [volume 3]

Hishikawa, Moronobu, approximately 1618-approximately 1694 · 1685 · Japan : [producer not identified] · 8 pictures

A Picture Book Mirror of Various Occupations, volume 3, is a Japanese woodblock-printed illustrated book from 1685 by Hishikawa Moronobu (c. 1618–1694), showing trades and daily work for a general readership. Its double-page spreads each pair a framed scene of a craftsman or worker with a block of cursive text above, drawn in clean, economical black line on pale paper, offering a designer a clear model for simple figure-based line illustration and the layout of text panels above images.

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