Vols. 1, 2, 4, 5 of 5, Picture Book of Incidents in the Life of Ranjatai (Ehon Ranjatai) : [volume 5]

Tsukioka, Settei, 1710-1787 · 1764 · Edo: Kichimonjiya Jirōbei吉文字屋次郎兵衛; Osaka: Kichimonjiya Ichibei吉文字屋市兵衛 · 7 pictures

An 18th-century Japanese woodblock picture book, the fifth volume of Ehon Ranjatai, made by the artist Tsukioka Settei and published in 1764 in Edo and Osaka for a popular readership. The pictures are ink line drawings on facing pages, each paired with columns of calligraphic verse, showing courtly figures in interiors, gardens and a shrine gate. A designer could take from them the economical contour line, the flat patterned kimono textures and the way text and image share one page.

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