People of Yamato (Japan) Picture Album (Yamato jinbutsu gafu), Second Series
A Japanese woodblock picture album of 1804 by Yamaguchi Soken, published in Kyoto by Nagamura Tasuke, that records everyday people of the Yamato region for a general readership. The pages show line-drawn figures in plain ink on pale paper: a seated barber or vendor at work, diners at a low table under a tree, a porter with a bundle, a priest and a child, and a woman in an elaborate hairstyle, giving a designer clean sparse linework and simple figure gestures to borrow.
