Collection of Famous Kyōka Poems Selected by Shakuyakutei (Shakuyakutei bunshū shohen) : [volume 3]

Shakuyakutei Nagane, ‏1767-1845 · 1834 · Japan : [producer not identified] · 4 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock-printed volume of kyōka comic poems compiled by the poet Shakuyakutei Nagane, published in Japan in 1834 for a literate readership of poetry enthusiasts. Its pictures are delicate, restrained pages of figures, a garden rock with pots, a kneeling woman beside a lacquer box, and a peony cover in soft blue and pink washes, offering a designer clear examples of economical line, pale colour on cream paper, and asymmetric composition.

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