Azuma nishikie
A Japanese colour woodblock print series from 1860, published in Tokyo under an unidentified publisher and designed by Utagawa Kunisada, made for the popular print market of the day. Its pictures show kabuki actors in theatrical costume posed in interiors, with bold printed patterns, striped and checked kimono, and the flat, saturated colour typical of nishikie prints, offering a designer strong examples of patterned textile and layered text-and-image composition.
