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当世自筆鏡 髪結伊之助(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1858 · 魚栄 · 1 picture

A Japanese woodblock print from 1858 by Toyokuni, published by Gyokuei, in the ehon picture-book tradition. It is a portrait of an actor in a blue patterned kimono with a stylised bamboo branch and a pale green ground, and a designer might take its flat colour blocks and its calligraphic label panel as a model for layout.

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