One Hundred Comic Poems of the Flower, One of the Three Friends, Tsuki, the Moon, Yuki, the Snow, and Hana, the Flower (Sansai hana hyakushu) : [volume 1]
This is a Japanese illustrated kyoka poetry book, volume 1, by Totoya Hokkei, published in Edo in 1828 by Shunyūtei for a readership of poetry lovers. Its pictures are woodblock prints where cherry blossoms, fish in streams and everyday figures sit beside short printed verses, offering designers pale washes, bold silhouetted branches and tight compositional framing.
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