清親畫帖 [3]

小林清親畫 · 1800 · [製作者不明] · 34 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) by Kobayashi Kiyochika, undated and of unknown publisher, made for a general audience, presenting character studies of faces and expressions. The pictures show close-cropped portraits of men and women in exaggerated emotional states, drawn in flat colour with bold outlines and printed on cream paper, offering a designer clear models for caricature, facial expression and compact framed figure compositions.

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