絵本婦女合世佳娥美 [3]

歌川, 豊国, 歌川豊国画 · 伊勢屋治助 · 10 pictures

This is an illustrated Japanese picture book (ehon) of the Edo period, drawn by Utagawa Toyokuni and published by Iseya Jisuke, showing women of the pleasure quarters and townsfolk in woodblock prints. The pictures are fine-lined black outline drawings with sparse colour, showing patterned kimono, elaborate hairstyles and layouts that place figures in interiors, gardens and processions, useful for a designer studying textile pattern, costume silhouettes and the rhythm of crowded figure grouping beside handwritten calligraphy columns.

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