Chats on Novelties of Foreign Lands (Kōmōzatsuwa 紅毛雑話) : [volume 2]

Morishima, Chūryō,‏ ‎1754-1810?‏ · 1787 · Edo : Suharaya Ichibei · 2 pictures

A Japanese woodblock-printed book of 1787 by Morishima Chūryō, published in Edo by Suharaya Ichibei, reporting on Western knowledge and foreign goods for a general reading public. The first picture is a single ink-outlined rock form on plain paper, while the second shows a two-page spread of a wooden trestle, a winch-like device and a tunnel-shaped mound with a handwritten caption column. A designer might take from them the economy of a single contour line for natural forms and the clean hierarchy of captioned diagrams beside text.

Mountains -- Religious aspects

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