Picture Book of Poems on Shells (Kyōkun chūkai ehon kai kasen) : [volume 3]
A Japanese woodblock picture book in monochrome ink, printed in Kyoto and Edo in 1748 by Nishikawa Sukenobu, volume three of a series pairing shell poems with genre scenes for a popular readership. Its double-page spreads show elegantly dressed women in interiors and gardens beside lines of calligraphic verse, and a designer could take from them the economical contour line, flat unshaded figures, and the way text and image share one page.
![Picture 1 of 7 from Picture Book of Poems on Shells (Kyōkun chūkai ehon kai kasen) : [volume 3] (1748), leaf 1](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18003-1-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 7 from Picture Book of Poems on Shells (Kyōkun chūkai ehon kai kasen) : [volume 3] (1748), leaf 4](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18003-4-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 7 from Picture Book of Poems on Shells (Kyōkun chūkai ehon kai kasen) : [volume 3] (1748), leaf 5](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18003-5-1.webp)
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![Picture 7 of 7 from Picture Book of Poems on Shells (Kyōkun chūkai ehon kai kasen) : [volume 3] (1748), leaf 13](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18003-13-1.webp)