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斎藤長八編 · 1887 · 斎藤長八 · 21 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) compiled by Saito Chohachi and published in Tokyo in 1887, apparently for a general readership. Its pictures show crowded street and interior scenes of kabuki-style actors in robes, with hand-lettered name captions, stylised crests, and bold black line work that a designer could draw on for graphic or typographic ideas.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library