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[絵本役割] 明治２０年１月刊

谷口貞次郎 編 · 1887 · 谷口貞次郎 · 15 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book published in January 1887 (Meiji 20) by Taniguchi Teijirō, who edited it, for a general readership. The pictures are crude black-and-white woodblock-style prints of townspeople and performers in kimono, many with Japanese text captions and characters placed beside the figures. A designer might take the bold outlined figures, dense hatched textures and the hand-lettered kana labels as a model for graphic, high-contrast folk 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