Picture Book of the Foot and Peak of the Mountain (Ehon komagatake ) : [volume 2]

Kitao, Shigemasa, 1739-1820 · 1802 · Edo: Nishimura Sōshichi 西村宗七 · 4 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book of 1802 published in Edo by Nishimura Sōshichi, made by the artist Kitao Shigemasa and issued for a general readership of print buyers. Its pages show a warrior on horseback with attendants, a grazing horse beneath blossoming branches, a courtly scene with a white horse at a wooden staircase, and a patterned blue-grey cover with stylised flowers and birds. A designer might take from them the economical linework, flat colour washes in pink and green, and the way pine and blossom frame figures in open landscape.

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