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小桜姫風月奇観 : 絵本 巻之3 中冊

山東京山 著, 歌川国貞 画 · 岡田茂兵衛等 · 4 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book, volume 3 (middle section) of the Kobakuhime Fugetsu Kikan, written by Santo Kyozan and illustrated by Utagawa Kunisada, published in Edo by Okada Mohei and associates. The pages are woodblock prints of indoor and garden scenes with figures in kimono, seated on tatami and beside a veranda. Designers can take from them the compact, flowing line of Edo-period figure composition and the way a single woodblock page divides into stacked scenes with inset calligraphic captions.

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