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Picture Album of the Floating World (Ukiyo efu 浮世画譜) : [volume 3]

Ikeda, Eisen, 1790-1848 · 1820 · Edo, Nagoya : Eirakuya Tōshirō 永楽屋東四郎 · 29 pictures

Picture Album of the Floating World is a volume of woodblock-printed sketches by Ikeda Eisen, published in Edo and Nagoya in 1820 by Eirakuya Tōshirō for a popular audience. Its double-page spreads hold loosely arranged small figures of townspeople, travellers, performers, fishermen and animals drawn in quick, spare ink line on plain paper, offering a designer a source of economical figure poses, gestures and vignette layouts scattered across the page.

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