絵本四季花 下
An 1801 Japanese ehon picture book of the four seasons, illustrated by Kitagawa Utamaro and published by Izumiya Ichibei in Edo for a general readership of urban pleasure-seekers. The woodblock prints show women and children in interiors with latticed screens, gardens and seasonal flowers, rendered in soft colour washes with flat outlines. A designer could take from them the restrained use of pale ochre, muted greens and pinks, and the way patterned kimono fabric and bamboo blinds fill the picture plane.
