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A Modern Day "Clear Mirror" (Masukagami 万寿嘉々見) : [volume 3]

Ikeda, Eisen, 1790-1848 · 1822 · 6 pictures

Volume three of a Japanese woodblock book, A Modern Day Clear Mirror, made by the artist Ikeda Eisen in Edo in 1822 for an adult readership. The pictures show interior scenes with dense patterned textiles, painted screens, and columns of printed Japanese text, in colour woodblock with flat, bold areas of ink and layered pattern a designer could borrow for textile or pattern work.

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