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岩見重太郎・伏見屋娘お梅(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1860 · 木屋 · 2 pictures

A Japanese woodblock print album by Utagawa Toyokuni, made around 1860 and published by Kiya, collected in the Toyokuni picture album. Two actor portraits on deep blue grounds show a stern man in a black kimono holding a pink fan with a butterfly crest, and a woman in patterned blue robes with red collar and flower hair ornaments. A designer might take the bold flat colour blocks against dark blue, and the dense repeated kimono patterns of swirls and flowers.

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