Picture Book of the Wisteria Trousers (Ehon fujibakama) : [volume 1]

Yanagawa, Shigenobu, 1787-1832 · 1823 · Edo: Kadomaruya Jinsuke 角丸屋甚助; Kadomaruya Tokusaburō 角丸屋徳三郎 · 2 pictures

This Edo-period Japanese woodblock picture book, published in 1823 by Kadomaruya Jinsuke and Kadomaruya Tokusaburō and written and illustrated by Yanagawa Shigenobu, was made for a general reading public. Its pages show a moonlit walled garden with a figure in a cloak, a palace interior with seated courtiers, and armoured warriors on galloping horses with red trappings. A designer might take its open, sparse compositions, flat colour washes over fine black key lines, and the framing of figures against walls and architecture.

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