[絵本] 〔２３〕復讐殿下茶店聚下

大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 20 pictures

This is an 1885 Japanese ehon picture book published by Shonosuke Onishi, a woodblock print sequence of kabuki-style theatre portraits of actors in costume with explanatory kana text beside each figure. Its pages show stylised performers in patterned kimono and formal dress, a format aimed at the Japanese popular reading public of the Meiji period. A designer can take from it the dense geometric kimono patterns, bold flat black ink and the tight pairing of image and vertical calligraphic 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