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An 18th-century Japanese woodblock picture book, Ehon Zoku Butai Ōgi, the lower volume, published in 1778 by Kikuya Yasubei and illustrated by Takahashi Kiki for a popular audience. Its pages show kabuki actors as half-length figures framed inside fan-shaped cartouches, with printed kanji names beside them. A designer might take the fan-shaped framing and flat, layered colour of the robes and patterns as a compact model for portrait compositions.
