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An 1778 Japanese ehon picture book, Ehon Zoku Butai Ōgi Jō, published by Kikuya Yasubei with illustrations credited to Takahashi Kiki, made for popular readers in Edo. Its pictures are full-colour woodblock prints of kabuki actors posed inside fan-shaped cartouches, with the actor's name written beside each figure. A designer could take the fan-shaped framing, the bold red eyeliner marks, and the patterned kimono textiles as compositional and colour references.
