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歌川豊国三世画 · 33 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture album of kabuki actor portraits drawn by Utagawa Toyokuni III, a woodblock-era pattern-book intended for printmakers and artists. The pictures show actors in full costume poses with calligraphic name cartouches, rendered in clean ink outlines with sparse colour washes, offering a designer studies of kimono pattern, dynamic figure posture and bold calligraphy placement.

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