New Year's Day at the Ogiya Seiro (Yoshiwara yūkaku no kei 吉原遊郭の景)
A Japanese woodblock print album spread from 1811 by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Edo by Iseya Rihei and Kinjudō, showing New Year's Day at the Ogiya teahouse in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter. The pictures show crowded interior scenes of women in patterned kimono, seated attendants, and staircases, with flat layered colour and gold-speckled background areas a designer could draw on for pattern and composition.
