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〔勝川春潮//画〕 · 1790 · 和泉屋市〔兵衛〕 · 15 pictures

This is a two-volume Japanese picture book (ehon) of 1790, illustrated by Katsukawa Shuncho and published by Izumiya Ichibei in Edo for a general readership of townspeople. The pictures are woodblock prints of women and men in interiors and streets, drawn in flat colour with fine outlines and patterned kimono, offering a designer examples of Edo-period figure composition, textile pattern and sparing use of interior screens and sliding doors.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library