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大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 19 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Ōnishi Shōnosuke and published in 1885, likely for popular readers of kabuki-derived stories. Its pages are woodblock-printed panels of seated and standing figures in patterned kimono, framed by columns of vertical Japanese text. A designer might take the bold, high-contrast black patterning of the garments and the tight interplay between image blocks and calligraphic text columns.

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