職人歌合画本 [1]

伴信友 · 1838 · 伴信友写 · 44 pictures

This is an 1838 Japanese illustrated book, the Shokunin Utaawase picture book, copied out by Ban Nobutomo and aimed at readers of ehon picture books. Its pictures show men of different trades, each seated and working with their tools in soft colour washes, with brief handwritten captions in the margins. A designer could take the simple flat colour, the patterned kimono and the tidy tool and workshop details as reference for period craft scenes.

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