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北尾重政 画 · 1788 · 65 pictures

An 1788 Japanese ehon picture book illustrated by Kitao Shigemasa, printed in Edo for a general readership interested in fashionable women and everyday life. Its pictures are monochrome woodblock prints of elegant women with parasols, garden scenes, and interiors, offering a designer clear examples of Edo-period costume patterns, hairstyles, and compositional framing using screens and architectural lines.

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