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絵本柳荒美談 : 水月真影

柾木冏洲 編 · 1888 · 福老館 · 9 pictures

An 1888 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) edited by Masaki Keishū and published by Fukurōkan, a picture book of popular fiction and drama. Its pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints of samurai and theatrical figures in patterned kimono, with scattered confetti-like squares and boxed captions, offering a designer strong graphic contrast, dense pattern textures, and compositions built on diagonal figures and framing screens.

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