絵本金花談 巻之12 2冊
This is a Japanese ehon picture book, volume twelve of a two-volume set, illustrated by Hayami Shungyosai and published by Maekawa Genshichiro, probably in Edo in the early nineteenth century for popular readers. Its woodblock-printed pages show interiors with tatami floors, sliding screens, and seated figures, drawn in clean black linework with inscribed captions in the upper margins. A designer could take from them the economical contour line, flat patterned kimono, and architectural perspective of Edo-period print.
