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てい女みさほ鏡(収載資料名:国芳豊国画帖)

一勇斎国芳 · 1 picture

A Japanese woodblock print from the Utagawa Kuniyoshi school, published in Edo-period Japan and catalogued as part of a collection of picture albums. The image shows a costumed warrior in a dark robe wrestling a pale, muscular opponent on a wooden floor, with a rope or cord wrapped around the figures and two silhouetted attackers with swords on a shoji screen behind. A designer could take the bold contrast of black silhouette against pale ground, the swirling dynamic line of the cord, and the flat patterned textiles.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

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