World of Fine Arts (Bijutsu Sekai) : [volume 13]

Watanabe, Seitei, 1851-1918 · 1891 · Tokyo : Shun’yōdō 春陽堂 · 5 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture album, the thirteenth volume of World of Fine Arts, compiled and illustrated by Watanabe Seitei and published in Tokyo in 1891 for a general audience of art lovers. Its pages show woodblock-style prints of costumed figures, flowering plants, a red-robed woman with a dog, misty rocky shores, and a wild boar rendered in ink and light colour, offering a designer clear models of economical line, open negative space, and tonal wash.

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