http://dbs.humi.keio.ac.jp/naraehon/index-e.html
Digital Database of Nara Ehon Around the World is an open digital archive
which makes available works of Nara ehon ("Nara picture books"),
short illustrated narrative manuscripts produced during the Muromachi to Edo
periods, in collections from all over the world.
In terms of format, Nara ehon may be grouped into three categories of
horizontal books, vertical books, and large vertical books. While the
bindings of the manuscripts also vary, the most common are ones with navy
blue covers with designs of autumn grasses in gold pigment and attached with
vermillion title slips that were sometimes called yomeiri-bon ("trousseau
books"). The illustrations, provided on a single page or as a spread, may
generally be grouped to those either executed in the so-called "Nara-e
style" using inexpensive opaque pigment (doroenogu) or in a more delicately
rendered luxurious style. Both styles employ the standardized composition of
framing the top and bottom of the pictorial surface with trailing mist
(suyari-gasumi). Vivid colors such as vermillion and green are combined with
lavish uses of gold and silver foils and pigments in Nara ehon, not unlike
miniatures.
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