絵本常盤草 3巻 [2]

西川祐信画 · 1731 · 毛利田庄太郎 · 29 pictures

This is an 18th-century Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) in three volumes, illustrated by Nishikawa Sukenobu and published in 1731 by Mōritaya Shōtarō for a general readership of women and households. Its double-page spreads show elegant women in patterned kimono indoors and in plum-blossom gardens, drawn in fine, economical ink lines with little shading, so a designer can borrow its clean linework, restrained flat patterning of textiles, and layouts that frame figures against architecture and blossoming branches.

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