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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, with its text and illustrations printed in black woodblock-style line work. The pages show seated samurai-style men in patterned kimono beside columns of vertical Japanese text, with the surrounding calligraphy framing each figure. A designer could take the dense, tightly boxed text-and-figure layouts and the bold hatched patterning of the garments as a model for compact editorial page design.

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