絵本江戸紫 [1]

禿帚子作, 石川豊信画 · 1765 · 須原屋茂兵衛[ほか2名] · 21 pictures

An 1765 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) by author Tokuho Shi and artist Ishikawa Toyonobu, published by Suharaya Mohei and partners in Edo for a general readership. Its pictures are monochrome woodblock prints on tinted paper showing women in interiors with shoji screens, tatami, and seasonal plum branches, with handwritten kana verses in the margins, offering a designer clean linear figure drawing and a restrained decorative pattern vocabulary of kimono motifs.

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