絵本常盤草 3巻 [3]

西川祐信画 · 1731 · 毛利田庄太郎 · 28 pictures

Ehon picture book volume 3 of Tokiwagusa, illustrated by Nishikawa Sukenobu and published in Japan in 1731 by Mouritaya Shotaro, aimed at a general readership of townspeople and women. The woodblock pages show elegantly dressed women in richly patterned kimono moving through interiors with sliding paper screens, a lantern, and wooden floors, and a designer might draw on their fine linear figure outlines, decorative textile patterns, and restrained spatial layouts.

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