

The image shows a book with a gray cover featuring a pattern of intersecting diagonal lines. The cover is rectangular and worn, with a vertical tan rectangle on the left side containing black Japanese characters. A small white label is affixed to the top-right corner of the cover, bearing black text that reads "Br. 56 Sakai, H. 1817" on the first line, "Ōson gafu" on the second line, and "An Album of Oson" on the third line, with "Artist unknown" on the fourth line. A color palette is visible at the bottom of the image, set against a black background.
Artwork Details
- Date
- 1817
- Medium
- Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Dimensions
- 600 × 450 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original
You May Also Like

Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰

Twenty-four Instances of Filial Piety (Ehon nijūshi kō) 絵本廿四孝

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Miscellaneous

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Bamboo

Reverberations of Taiga (Volume 1)

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Fruit

Kōrin's Painting Style (Kōrin gashiki)

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Plum Blossoms

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Bamboo

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Round Fans

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Plum Blossoms

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Orchids

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Rocks

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Birds

Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Handbook (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu): Birds

Illustrated Book of Domestic Manners (Ehon teikin ōrai) 絵本庭訓往来

Abbreviated Drawing Styles (Figures) (Ryakuga shiki) 略画式 (人物)

The Story of Aoto Fujitsuna (Aoto Fujitsuna moryōan) 青砥藤綱模稜案

Gifts from the Ebb-Tide (The Shell Book) (Shiohi no tsuto) 潮干のつと

Album of Miscellaneous Subjects

Illustrated Book of Humorous Poems "Mountain on Mountain" (Ehon Kyōka yama mata yama) 絵本狂歌山満多山

One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Hyakkei shohen) 富嶽百景 初編

Album of Textile Samples

Sarasa benran no mokuroku (catalogue compendium of sarasa designs)





