画本宝能縷
This is a Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1786 by Maekawa Rokuzaemon, illustrated by Katsukawa Shunsho and Kitao Shigemasa, and aimed at a general readership of townspeople. Its woodblock prints show women at domestic and craft work in gardens and houses, with colour washes and inscribed verses beside the figures, offering a designer examples of Edo-period line, flat colour and framing.











