Mirror of the Beauties of the Green-houses (Seirō bijin awase sugata kagami) : [volume 3]
A woodblock-printed volume from Edo, Japan, published in 1776 by Tsutaya Jūzaburō's Kōshodō and designed by Katsukawa Shunshō, depicting courtesans of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter. The pictures show elegantly dressed women in interiors and at a garden entrance, rendered in flat colour with fine black key lines and patterned kimono, offering a designer examples of layered textile patterns, restrained palette and compositional use of screens and interior framing.
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