Forty-eight Instructive Poems in Alphabetical Order (Ehon irohauta 絵本以呂波歌) : [volume 1]
An 1788 Japanese woodblock picture book of forty-eight moral poems arranged by the kana syllabary, issued in Osaka and Edo by Kawachiya Yahei and Suharaya Ichibei and attributed to Suzuki Harunobu, aimed at general readers. Its double-page spreads pair a short verse in calligraphic columns with a simple line-drawn scene of townspeople, travellers and domestic life, giving a designer clean, economical compositions of figures, architecture and landscape to adapt.
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