Kyosen’s Collected Illustrations of Japanese Toys : [volume 3]

Kawasaki, Kyosen, 1877-1942 · 1919 · Osaka: Omochae hanga kai おもちゃ絵版画会 · 26 pictures

Kyosen's Collected Illustrations of Japanese Toys, volume 3, was made by the Japanese artist Kawasaki Kyosen (1877-1942) and published in Osaka in 1919 by the Omochae hanga kai society for a general audience of print collectors. Its pictures are flat, hand-coloured plates of traditional toys and festival figures in bold red, black, blue and cream, with simple outlines and patterned textiles that a designer could take as a palette and a graphic vocabulary of folk motifs.

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