Illustrated Book of Kyōka (comic poems) "Maple Bridge" (Ehon momiji bashi 絵本紅葉橋)
An illustrated book of kyoka comic poems, Ehon momiji bashi, made by the Edo artist Katsukawa Shuncho and published in 1790 by Tsutaya Jyuzaburo's Kosho-do with Yamazaki Kinbei, for a popular urban readership. Its double-page spreads show women and attendants in patterned kimono going about domestic and seasonal life in interiors, gardens, verandas and streets, drawn in fine, economical line with little shading, offering a designer clear models for layout, figure grouping and decorative kimono pattern.
