Japanese woodblock book pages with grasses and a frog – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic print of Japanese woodblock book pages with grasses and a frog brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Japanese woodblock book pages with grasses and a frog
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Two pages from a Japanese illustrated book, printed from carved woodblocks, show grasses and a frog rendered in fine black line with sparing color. Pages like these were typically produced for popular sketching manuals, where readers learned to draw plants, insects and animals by copying the simplified forms. The compact layout of grasses bending across the paper and the frog set low in the composition reflect the economy prized in that tradition. Look closely at the variation in the inked lines, which shows the hand of the carver as much as the designer.
| Original scan | 3,669 × 4,583 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08681_ |
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