絵本墨田川 [下巻]

鈴木春信画 · 山崎金兵衛 · 17 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) in two volumes, the lower volume here, illustrated by Suzuki Harunobu and published by Yamazaki Kinbei, probably in Edo in the 1770s or 1780s. The pictures show women in boats and riverbanks along the Sumida River, with poem columns in the margins. A designer might take its spare contour lines, pale washes of pattern on kimono, and quiet river-and-rain compositions as models for simple figure work.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

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