Yoshiwara Picture Book of New Year’s Festivities (Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji) : [volume 1]
This Edo woodblock picture book of 1804, made by the printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro and published by Kazusaya Chūsuke, shows the courtesans and households of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter through the year's New Year observances. Its pictures are monochrome line drawings of interiors with figures, folding screens, potted plants and furnishings, showing a designer how crowded domestic scenes can be arranged in flat, linear compositions with a strong sense of space.
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![Picture 2 of 2 from Yoshiwara Picture Book of New Year’s Festivities (Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji) : [volume 1] (1804), leaf 10](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18167-10-1.webp)