A Fashionable Representation of the Immortals of Poetry: Picture Book of Waka-no-ura (Fūryū kasen ehon waka no ura) : [volume 1]

Takagi, Sadatake, active 1720-1767 · 1734 · Osaka: Kawachiya Mohei河内屋茂兵衛; Kichimonjiya Ichibei吉文字屋市兵衛 · 10 pictures

A woodblock-printed picture book from Osaka in 1734, produced by the publishers Kawachiya Mohei and Kichimonjiya Ichibei with pictures by Takagi Sadatake, and aimed at a general readership wanting fashionable images of court poets. The pages show elegant Japanese women and courtiers in patterned kimono, indoors on tatami and outdoors under blossoming trees. A designer could take from them the dense linear hatching, the richly patterned textile motifs, and the spare framed compositions with short poem columns beside the figures.

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