A Fashionable Representation of the Immortals of Poetry: Picture Book of Waka-no-ura (Fūryū kasen ehon waka no ura) : [volume 2]

Takagi, Sadatake, active 1720-1767 · 1734 · Osaka: Kawachiya Mohei河内屋茂兵衛; Kichimonjiya Ichibei吉文字屋市兵衛 · 12 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book published in Osaka in 1734 by Kawachiya Mohei and Kichimonjiya Ichibei, with pictures by Takagi Sadatake, a painter active 1720 to 1767, made for a general readership interested in classical poetry. The double-page spreads show courtly women in elaborately patterned robes beside short verse captions in cursive kana, and a designer could draw on their dense textile patterns, graceful linear figures and open interior compositions.

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