絵本吾妻抉 [5]

北尾重政画 · 1797 · 和泉屋源七 · 23 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book, volume 5, illustrated by Kitao Shigemasa and published in 1797 by Izumiya Genshichi in Edo for a general readership of urban pleasure-seekers. The woodblock-printed plates show genteel scenes of women, children and courtly figures set among bamboo, pine and lanterns, drawn in fine, economical black line. A designer could take from them the clean contour line, the spare use of negative space, and the way bamboo and pine frame figures in architectural interiors.

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