光琳畫譜 2巻 [2]

芳中 [画] · 1826 · 和泉屋庄次郎 · 14 pictures

This Japanese picture book, a two-volume Kōrin gafu issued in 1826 by the Izumiya Shōjirō publishing house in Edo, was drawn by Hōchū and printed for popular buyers of ehon. The pictures are loose, hand-coloured brush sketches of figures in mid-gesture: a laughing old woman holding a sake vessel, a samurai with a sword seen from behind, and a court noble in red robes, with washes of blue, green, and ochre on plain paper that a designer could borrow for quick figure studies.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

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