One Hundred Comic Poems of the Flower, One of the Three Friends, Tsuki, the Moon, Yuki, the Snow, and Hana, the Flower (Sansai tsuki hyakushu) : [volume 2]
This is a Japanese illustrated kyōka poetry volume, the second of a set, made by Totoya Hokkei in Edo in 1829 and published by Shunyūtei for a readership of poetry and print enthusiasts. Its open double-page spread shows farmers working a paddy field beside a flock of geese flying across the sky, with the poems set in columns above. A designer might take the sparse ink line, the pale ground, and the way loose calligraphy and picture share the page as a model for quiet, layered compositions.
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