Chiyomikusa (Book on Design) : [volume 1]

1899 · Kyoto : Yamada Unsōdō 山田芸艸堂 · 15 pictures

Chiyomikusa is a Japanese design pattern book published in Kyoto in 1899 by Yamada Unsōdō, a printing house, and aimed at artists and craftsmen. Its pages show woodblock-printed fan-shaped motif studies of clouds, waves, and flowers, figure studies of women in kimono, and crest and textile patterns with handwritten Japanese labels. A designer might take the compact, repeating motif arrangements and the fan-shaped framing as ready models for pattern and layout work.

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