Nihonbashi, Kunisada I Utagawa - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication image
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Vrouw in kimono waarop patroon van eenden in een vijver, kijkend naar jongetje met acteurspop als yakkodanser; tegen cartouche met gezicht vanonder de Nihonbashi brug, op de Ryogoku brug, waarachter de berg Fuji. Voorgrond ontworpen door Kunisada, de achtergrond door Hiroshige.
A cartouche or cartouch is an oval design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design. In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartoccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery cartoccia.
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