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坂田善吉編 · 1879 · 坂田善吉 · 16 pictures

An 1879 Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Sakata Zenkichi and published by him, presenting a fox wedding tale with anthropomorphic foxes in domestic interiors. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints with bold outlines and dense hatching, showing fox figures in kimono seated around lanterns, tables and screens, with handwritten kana text in the margins. A designer might take the strong graphic contrast, the hatched textures of garments, and the compact figure groupings within interiors.

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