Picture Book: Flowers Yet to be Picked (Ehon Suetsumuhana? 絵本末摘花?) : [volume 1]

Nishikawa, Sukenobu, 1671-1751 · 1756 · 11 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book by Nishikawa Sukenobu, published in 1756 in Edo-period Japan, drawn for general readers and showing elegant court-style women in everyday settings. The pictures are monochrome ink line drawings on paper with short poem captions beside each figure, with robes patterned in fine repeated motifs, and a designer might take their flowing linear contours, dense kimono patterning, and simple interior settings with sliding screens as reference for line-driven pattern work.

Women in art -- Japan -- Pictorial works · Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Pictorial works

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