Itchō Picture Album (Itchō gafu 一蝶画譜) : [volume 3]

Hanabusa, Itchō, 1652-1724 · 1770 · Japan : [producer not identified] · 10 pictures

Itchō Picture Album, volume 3, is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture book made by the painter Hanabusa Itchō (1652-1724) and issued in Japan in 1770 as a model collection for artists and general readers. Its pages are double-spread views of ink line drawings with brief calligraphic captions, showing landscapes, figures, animals and everyday scenes. A designer can take from them the economy of single brush-like contour lines, open white space, and the way a few marks suggest weather, water and character.

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