Illustrated Journal of Japanese History no. 11-13 (Kokusho Gaho : Nihon Rekishi Gaho) : [volume 12]
A late nineteenth-century Japanese picture journal of national history, issued in Tokyo in 1893 by the publisher Ōkura Shoten and illustrated by Matsumoto Fūko, aimed at general readers. The three pictures are colour woodblock prints showing courtly and historical scenes: men in formal robes conversing on tatami, court ladies with long flowing hair in a palace interior, and a woman with a child beneath a blossoming tree. Their soft washes, pale grounds and restrained palettes offer designers a model for gentle, historically styled Japanese imagery.
![Picture 1 of 3 from Illustrated Journal of Japanese History no. 11-13 (Kokusho Gaho : Nihon Rekishi Gaho) : [volume 12] (1893), leaf 3](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_24300-3-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 3 from Illustrated Journal of Japanese History no. 11-13 (Kokusho Gaho : Nihon Rekishi Gaho) : [volume 12] (1893), leaf 7](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_24300-7-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 3 from Illustrated Journal of Japanese History no. 11-13 (Kokusho Gaho : Nihon Rekishi Gaho) : [volume 12] (1893), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_24300-9-1.webp)