[絵本] 〔２８〕敵討白石噺下

大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 18 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon), published in 1885 by Ōnishi Shōnosuke, with woodblock-style prints of figures in kimono above columns of kana text, apparently a vengeance tale for a popular readership. Its pages show samurai and townspeople in dynamic poses, with bold black-and-white hatching and dense textual panels that a designer could draw on for composition and print texture.

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