A Flowery Mirror of Beautiful Women (Bijin ryōka shū)
A Flowery Mirror of Beautiful Women (Bijin ryōka shū) is a Japanese woodblock picture book by Katsura Seiyō, published in Osaka and Kyoto in 1831 for a popular readership. Its pages pair elegant figures of women with short poems written in columns of calligraphy, and the figures show kimono patterns, parasols, musical instruments and interior settings that a designer could take as period costume and composition references.
