One Hundred Women of Japan (Wakoku hyakujo 和国百女) : [volume 2]

Hishikawa, Moronobu, approximately 1618-approximately 1694 · 1694 · 7 pictures

A Japanese woodblock-printed book of 1694 by Hishikawa Moronobu, the illustrator of the Edo period, showing one hundred women of Japan in their daily occupations, with columns of calligraphic text beside each scene. The pictures are spare black-line drawings with little shading, set in pale paper, and a designer might take their clean contour work, flat patterned kimono, and the economy of composing figures against blank ground.

Women in art -- Japan · Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868

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