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児玉又七 編 · 1880 · 大橋堂 · 14 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Kodama Matashichi and published by Ōhashidō in 1880, illustrating a popular story of kabuki-style theatre for a general reading public. Its woodblock-printed pages mix dense vertical Japanese text with bold figure scenes, showing dressed women, a street vendor carrying a sign, and a group of men in a tense interior. A designer might take the strong black-and-white figure silhouettes, patterned kimono textures, and the interplay of columns of calligraphy around figures.

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