Twenty-six Prints Constituting an Album
This is an 1887 album of twenty-six woodblock prints by Hashimoto Chikanobu, published in Tokyo by Takekawa Unokichi, depicting elegant women in interiors and garden settings. The pictures show richly patterned kimono in saturated purples, teals and reds, with women posed in tatami rooms, verandas and gardens; a designer might take their layered textile patterns, flat colour areas and vertical panel compositions as reference for period fashion and decorative pattern.
