Chiyomikusa (Book on Design) : [volume 3]

1901 · Kyoto : Yamada Unsōdō 山田芸艸堂 · 13 pictures

Chiyomikusa is a Japanese woodblock picture book of landscapes, pine trees and courtly scenes, published in Kyoto in 1901 by the Yamada Unsōdō press as a design reference for artists. The pages are monochrome ink line drawings with Japanese captions set beside each image, showing scenic views of shores and mountains with Mount Fuji, rocky coastlines, sprawling pine branches, and figures in a palace courtyard around a small fire. A designer could draw on their clean contour lines, the repeated stylised pine foliage, and the simple layered composition of distant hills, water and rock.

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