絵本金花談 巻之４
This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the late 18th or early 19th century, illustrated by Hayami Shungyosai and published by Maekawa Genshichirō, with the record giving no further date or place. Its pages show seated courtly figures in patterned robes on raised wooden verandas and stairs beneath paper lanterns, drawn in clean black linework with stylised cloud borders, which a designer might take as a source for simplified figure grouping and flat patterned textile motifs.
