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赤星重三 久女烝 (収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1861 · 鍵庄 · 3 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture album (ehon) issued in 1861 by the publisher Kagishō and credited to Toyokuni, made for a general reading and collecting audience in Japan. Its pictures are ink or colour prints of birds, a gold-rimmed circular motif, and a kabuki actor in a dark robe holding an object, drawn with confident brushlines and flat areas of colour a designer could borrow for bold silhouette and framing ideas.

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