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奥村政信//〔画〕 · 22 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book of ukiyo-e style prints by Okumura Masanobu, a woodblock-era artist of Edo, probably issued for a general urban readership. The pages show everyday scenes of townspeople, courtesans, and street life drawn in fine, economical black ink lines on plain paper. A designer might take from them the spare contour line, the flat compositional staging of figures against a few landscape or architectural cues, and the elegant patterning of kimono.

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