The Young God Ebisu (Waka ebisu)
This is a Japanese illustrated book printed in Edo in 1789 by the publisher Tsutaya Jūzaburō, attributed to Kitagawa Utamaro, and aimed at a general readership of the period. The pictures are colour woodblock prints of interiors and garden scenes with figures in robes, screens, verandas, and pine trees, drawn in flat washes with a pale, muted palette and soft outlines that a designer could draw on for layered, textile-like compositions.
