春章画帖
A Japanese picture album (ehon) by the painter Katsukawa Shunshō, probably from eighteenth-century Edo, with each leaf showing courtly figures in a garden or veranda beside poem calligraphy. The pictures show elegant robed women and a seated courtier in soft pink, ochre and green, with pine, blossom and wooden railings; a designer might borrow their flat colour washes, slender figure outlines and open composition with text placed in the sky.
