World of Fine Arts (Bijutsu Sekai) : [volume 3]

Watanabe, Seitei, 1851-1918 · 1891 · Tokyo : Shun’yōdō 春陽堂 · 12 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese art periodical volume from 1891, published in Tokyo by Shun'yōdō and compiled by the painter Watanabe Seitei for a readership interested in fine arts. The four pictures are woodblock-style prints of women in kimono and a figure in a banana grove, with flat colour, patterned robes and strong black outlines, offering a designer examples of pattern-rich textile motifs, dark silhouettes against pale grounds, and restrained figure drawing.

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