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駕籠や市助・田舎侍・駕籠や和吉(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1860 · 辻岡屋 · 2 pictures

A Japanese woodblock print album (ehon) by Utagawa Toyokuni, published in 1860 by Tsujiokaya, with contents drawn from a picture album titled Toyokuni gachō. The pictures show tattooed figures in full-body irezumi against cherry blossom, with sheer patterned backdrops and bold flat colour, offering a designer clear models for dense interlocking tattoo motifs and restrained blue-and-red palettes.

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