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勝間源五兵衛・桜屋小万(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1860 · 笹又 · 1 picture

A Japanese woodblock print from the Toyokuni picture album, published around 1860 by Sasamata for a general audience of collectors and theatre fans. The print shows a man in a black kimono and white hood raising a sword above a checked red ground, with a kneeling figure in patterned kimono below, and a designer might draw on its bold flat colour blocks, strong diagonal sword line, and patterned checkerboard backdrop.

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