anesama-e 姉様絵

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Art History
Painting

Woodblock printed sheets designed by lesser-known *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 artists, which usually represent women and girls in various outfits. The figures are set in rectangles intended to be cut out and pasted back-to-back, forming small cards for a game popular with girls from around the 1830's into the Meiji period. A type of omocha-e 玩具絵.