絵本玉かづら 上ノ巻
This is a 1928 facsimile reprint, published by Yonezandō and produced by the Kisho Fukusei Kai from Nishikawa Sukenobu's woodblock picture book Ehon Tamakazura, the upper volume, showing Japanese court and everyday life. Its prints are crisp black line drawings with few tones, so a designer could take from them the patterned kimono textures, the flat spatial layering of screens and verandas, and the calligraphic speech clouds.




























