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安部の保名 河原崎権十郎・あべの童子・葛の葉姫 中村芝翫(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1861 · 菊市 · 2 pictures

A Japanese woodblock print from 1861 by Utagawa Toyokuni III (Toyokuni), published by Kikuichi, showing kabuki actors in costume for a theatrical picture book. The first print shows an actor as a woman holding a round fan against a backdrop of chrysanthemums and grasses, and the second shows a man in a dark patterned robe holding a child before the same flowered ground. A designer might take the flat colour fields, the dense floral kimono patterns, and the bold red and blue textile motifs set against a dark ground.

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