絵本俚諺草
An illustrated Japanese picture book (ehon) titled 絵本俚諺草, illustrated by Ishikawa Toyonobu and published in 1752 by Suharaya Yahei and associates, likely for a general popular readership in Edo. The pictures are woodblock-printed line drawings of everyday scenes with women, children and a monk, with light colour washes and flat, open compositions. A designer could take the economical linework, sparse pale backgrounds, and patterned kimono textiles as references for decorative pattern and figure placement.
