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The Style of Woman's Fashion (Jochū ehon fūzoku yō 女中絵本風俗容)

1787 · Osaka : Kawachiya Kihei; Kyoto : Masakiya Kichibei; Kyoto : Minoya Heibei · 25 pictures

The Style of Woman's Fashion is a 1787 illustrated woodblock book printed in Osaka and Kyoto by several publishers, made for women readers interested in clothing and manners. Its double-page spreads show women in kimono going about domestic life, with calligraphic poem text set into the sky and walls, and the figures are drawn with fine, loose linework and sparse grey wash.

Fashion · Women's clothing

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