美人畫帖
A Japanese ehon picture album of beauties (bijin-ga) attributed to Utagawa Kuninao, dated 1800 in the catalogue record, made for a popular print-buying audience. The four figures show standing and kneeling women in patterned kimono with calligraphic poem inscriptions beside them, giving a designer examples of flowing striped and floral textile patterns, hairpin and coiffure silhouettes, and the placement of inscriptions in vertical columns.
