絵本栄家種 上
An 1790 Japanese picture book (ehon) in two volumes, illustrated by Katsukawa Shunchō and published by Izumiya Ichibei in Edo, aimed at a general reading public. Its pages are woodblock prints in soft ochre and yellow with loose, rounded figure drawing, showing women and men in domestic and social scenes of interior rooms and sliding screens. A designer might take from them the economical outline work, the flat colour washes over open ground, and the way interior architecture is cut into the page by a few lines.
