絵本江戸紫 [2]

禿帚子作, 石川豊信画 · 1765 · 須原屋茂兵衛[ほか2名] · 20 pictures

This is an 1765 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon), volume 2, written by Tokuhōshi and illustrated by Ishikawa Toyonobu, published in Edo by Sūharaya Mohei and two partners for a general urban readership. Its pictures show women and children in interiors and on verandas, with patterned kimono, lattice screens, tubs, and cooking vessels drawn in fine black line on a warm paper ground, offering a designer clear models for woodblock-style line work, kimono pattern, and domestic Edo-period scenes.

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