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佳人音曲之図(収載資料名:[武者无類外ニ三枚続キ画帖])

楊洲周延 · 1888 · 横山良八 · 3 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock print from 1888, made by the artist Yoshitoshi-school printmaker Chikanobu Yoshu and published by Yokoyama Ryohachi, belonging to the ehon picture-book tradition for a general audience. The three pictures show elegant women in patterned silk kimono indoors, with shelves, flowering branches, a biwa lute, and a folding screen, offering a designer ideas for layered textiles, interior settings and restrained pastel palettes with red accents.

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