繪本時丗粧 2巻 [1]

歌川一陽齋豐國文畫 · 1802 · 甘泉堂和泉屋市兵衞 · 14 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) in two volumes, published in 1802 in Edo by the Izumiya Ichibee firm, with text and pictures by Utagawa Ichiyōsai Toyokuni for a general readership of townspeople. The pages show Edo-period women in everyday interiors, gardens and street scenes, drawn in flat colour with fine outlines. A designer could take from them the layered kimono patterns, interior screens and compositions that span two facing pages.

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