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大工六三(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1858 · 魚栄 · 1 picture

A woodblock print from 1858 by Toyokuni, published by Gyokuei, collected in a Japanese picture-book album of Toyokuni's work. It shows a red-robed man wrestling a huge dark carp that leaps out of churning blue waves, with the fish filling the upper half of the sheet. A designer might take the bold dark silhouette against the swirling water pattern, the strong diagonal of the leaping fish, and the flat red and indigo colour blocks.

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