kamigata　紙形

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Lit. paper figure. The preliminary underdrawing *shita-e 下絵 for a Kamakura and Muromachi periods portrait. The kamigata is so named because only the face was sketched from life and the costume and accessories were assembled from other underdrawings and pasted onto the shita-e.

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