[絵本] 〔８〕仮名手本忠臣蔵上

大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 19 pictures

This is a Meiji-era (1885) Japanese picture book of the Kanadehon Chushingura story, compiled and published by Ōnishi Shōnosuke in Tokyo for a general readership of popular ehon collectors. The pages pair woodblock-printed figures of kabuki-style warriors and courtiers with dense columns of Japanese text set around them. A designer could take the bold black-and-white hatching of kimono patterns, the framing of figures against text panels, and the compact vertical text layouts as models for graphic compositions.

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