Picture Book of the Hitachi Obi (Enpon futahashira) : [volume 2]
A Japanese woodblock picture book, volume 2 of the Hitachi Obi series, made by the printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro in 1803 for an adult readership. The pages show ink-line compositions of women in interiors, with handwritten Japanese text running beside the figures and framing the scenes. A designer could take from them the economical contour line, the flat areas of pattern in kimono and screens, and the way text and image share a page.
![Picture 1 of 6 from Picture Book of the Hitachi Obi (Enpon futahashira) : [volume 2] (1803), leaf 3](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18203-3-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 6 from Picture Book of the Hitachi Obi (Enpon futahashira) : [volume 2] (1803), leaf 4](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18203-4-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 6 from Picture Book of the Hitachi Obi (Enpon futahashira) : [volume 2] (1803), leaf 5](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18203-5-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 6 from Picture Book of the Hitachi Obi (Enpon futahashira) : [volume 2] (1803), leaf 8](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18203-8-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 6 from Picture Book of the Hitachi Obi (Enpon futahashira) : [volume 2] (1803), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18203-9-1.webp)
![Picture 6 of 6 from Picture Book of the Hitachi Obi (Enpon futahashira) : [volume 2] (1803), leaf 11](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18203-11-1.webp)