繪本忍婦草 3巻
This is a three-volume Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) titled 繪本忍婦草, illustrated by Nishikawa Jitokuso Sukenobu and published in 1750 by Kikuya Kihei, probably for a general urban readership in Edo-period Japan. The pages show interior and courtyard scenes in fine ink line on tan paper, with women seated on tatami, a courtier reading a scroll, and robed men on wooden verandas beside flowering shrubs. A designer might draw on the economical contour line, the diagonal perspective of raised floors and screens, and the calm spacing of figures against empty ground.
