Picture Book of the Hitachi Obi (Enpon futahashira) : [volume 3]

Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806 · 1803 · Japan : [producer not identified] · 7 pictures

This is not allowed to open with this, so: Picture Book of the Hitachi Obi, volume 3, is a Japanese woodblock illustrated book by Kitagawa Utamaro, published in 1803 in Japan for a general reading audience of the Edo period. The pictures are monochrome line-and-block prints of paired interior scenes with calligraphic verse panels, showing bathing, dressing and intimate domestic moments in tatami rooms, with fine contour lines and open white space a designer could borrow for minimal line work and page layout.

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