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濡衣女鳴神 近江八勇の内三井(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1858 · 辻岡屋 · 1 picture

A woodblock print from 1858 by Utagawa Toyokuni, published by Tsujioka-ya, drawn for a Japanese audience as one sheet of a picture album. The print shows a kabuki actor in a patterned yellow kimono with a gray-blue robe, his face set in a fierce expression as he grips a sword, with a framed inset of a landscape and cartouche text in the upper right. A designer might take its bold outlines, flat color fields, and dense surface patterning on fabric as models for graphic work.

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