Unai no tomo (Book of Toys) : [volume 7]

Nishizawa, Tekiho, 1889-1965, Shimizu, Seifū, 1851-1913 · 1917 · Kyoto : Yamada Unsōdō 山田芸艸堂 · 25 pictures

Unai no tomo is a Japanese card-game album of 1917, compiled by Nishizawa Tekiho and Shimizu Seifu and published in Kyoto by Yamada Unsodo for playing-card collectors and craft audiences. Its pages are grids of framed hand-coloured cards showing seated figures in robes, mounted riders, warriors, and crossed-stick patterns in red, green and grey, with ink captions set beside them. A designer might take the repeating framed-card layout, the flat palette of red, green and cream, and the simple crossed-line motifs for pattern or card design.

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