絵本江戸紫 [3]

禿帚子作, 石川豊信画 · 1765 · 須原屋茂兵衛[ほか2名] · 19 pictures

This is an Edo-period Japanese picture book (ehon), volume 3 of Ehon Edo Murasaki, written by Tokuho Shishi and illustrated by Ishikawa Toyonobu, published in Edo in 1765 by Suharaya Mohei and two partners for a popular urban readership. The pictures are woodblock-printed interiors of elegant women and households in kimono with tatami, shoji screens, and small lacquered objects, drawn in clean outline with sparse patterned textiles that suggest eighteenth-century Edo fashion and interior design.

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