Taisho Period Japanese Manuscript with 58 Sumi Ink Landscapes girl praying animals (a bumblebee

animals (a bumblebee

but I do think the design is pretty brilliant

but whatever the case

and a vehicle for the use of lots of gold

Taisho Period Japanese Manuscript with 58 Sumi Ink Landscapes girl praying animals (a bumblebeeOf course I wish I could read Japanese to know what is written on the right hand page of each spread in this lovely early 20th century manuscript notebook, but the sumi ink drawings on the left of the spread (58 total by my count) more than stand on their own. Each drawing painting is of a landscape view framed by an oval border, with each seeming like a portrait of a specific place at a specific moment sometimes with rain streaming down, sometimes