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石川和助 編 · 1880 · 石川和助 · 10 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book, volume 5 of a set titled Samidare Monogatari part 2, compiled by Ishikawa Wasuke and published in 1880 in Japan for a general reading audience. Its woodblock-style line prints show Edo-period townspeople in interiors and street scenes, with short captions in the margins; a designer could take their clean contour lines, flat black areas, and compact figure groupings as a model for simple monochrome 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