Picture Book: Chrysanthemum (Ehon Chiyomigusa 絵本千代見草) : [volumes 2-3]

Nishikawa, Sukenobu, 1671-1751 · 1755 · Kyoto : Hishiya Jihei · 11 pictures

Ehon Chiyomigusa is an illustrated picture book by Nishikawa Sukenobu, printed in Kyoto in 1755 by Hishiya Jihei for a general readership of the period. Its pages show elegant women in interiors going about domestic routines such as dressing, folding robes, and watching rain from verandas, with short poems written beside the images. A designer could take from them the flowing kimono patterns, the calm linear figure drawing, and the spare architectural framing of sliding screens and verandas.

Women in art -- Japan -- Pictorial works · Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Pictorial works

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