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全盛四季冬 根津庄やしき大松楼（収載資料名：[武者无類外ニ三枚続キ画帖]）

芳年 · 秋山武右衛門 · 3 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock print series, titled 全盛四季冬 (Winter from the Prosperous Seasons), made by the artist Yoshitoshi and published by Akiyama Umeemon in Japan, likely in the Meiji period. The three pictures show elegant women in snowy garden settings, each in a single full-length composition. A designer might take from them the restrained palette of blue, red and cream against snow-white grounds, and the layered patterns of kimono, which read clearly as simple flat shapes.

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National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library