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Men’s Stomping Dances (Otoko tōka)

1798 · Edo: Tsutaya Jūzaburō 蔦屋重三郎 · 5 pictures

A Japanese woodblock print book published in Edo in 1798 by Tsutaya Jūzaburō, a commercial publisher, aimed at a general urban readership. Its pictures are monochrome and tinted double-page scenes of Edo-period townspeople, shrines, and gardens, with plain linework and light colour washes that suit designers studying Ukiyo-e composition, layered spatial depth, and the use of framing architecture.

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