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大西庄之助 編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 22 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) compiled by Ōnishi Shōnosuke and published in 1885, with pages of illustration framed by dense columns of vertical kana text. Its scenes show a seated man in a patterned kimono by a lattice screen, a man in striped robes at a sliding door, a figure beside a hibachi-like bucket, and two men seated in a boat under a dark sky, which a designer might take as examples of compact figure-and-text page layout and bold black-and-white line work.

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