十二支画帖 亥・子・丑之巻
A Japanese illustrated album of 1923 published by Iseshin shoten, compiled by Iwaya Sazanami and others, collecting pictures of the zodiac animals boar, rat and ox. The pictures show painted and drawn toys and figurines of these animals, including a red cloth boar, a red lacquered ox with a grey swirled pattern, a stone-coloured ox-shaped toy, and a spotted clay beast on a green base, rendered in flat washes of red, grey and ochre on cream paper. A designer could take from them the simple folk-toy forms, limited earthy palette and bold spot patterning.
