Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ama no ukihashi) : [volume 2]

Yanagawa, Shigenobu, 1787-1832 · 1830 · Japan : [producer not identified] · 7 pictures

A Japanese woodblock print album from 1830, made by the artist Yanagawa Shigenobu and published in Japan, presumably for an adult readership of the period. Its pictures show interiors of the Edo era with figures in patterned kimono, lacquer boxes, teapots and folding screens, drawn in flat colour with crisp black outlines. A designer might take its strong patterned textiles, restrained palette of indigo, pink and cream, and compact figure groupings within domestic rooms.

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