[絵本役割] 明治１９年１２月刊

斎藤長八編 · 1887 · 斎藤長八 · 14 pictures

An 1887 Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) compiled by Saitō Chōhachi and published by him, with the title 絵本役割 (Ehon Yakuwari, meaning picture-book role or part) and printed in December 1886 in the Meiji period. The pictures are small black-and-white line blocks of costumed figures in interiors and streets, with vertical Japanese text beside them, and a designer might take their dense, hatched linework, patterned kimono textures and tightly packed compositions as a model for bold graphic illustration.

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