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[絵本] 〔４〕 徳川十五代記略記 ２編

石川和助 編 · 1880 · 石川和助 · 9 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Ishikawa Wasuke and published in 1880, presenting a sequence of woodblock-style figure illustrations of Tokugawa shogunal lords for a general readership. The pictures are black-and-white line drawings with patterned kimono, dense textile motifs, and short columns of vertical kana captions beside each figure. A designer might take from them the dense, repeating textile patterns of the robes, the strong ink outlines, and the compact caption-and-figure layout.

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