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荒川吉五郎編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 17 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1882 by Arakawa Kichigoro, the publisher and compiler, for a general reading public, the second volume of a revenge tale titled Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Adauchi. The woodblock-style pictures show seated and standing figures in interiors, samurai armour, and a porter carrying a bundle of brushwood past a bamboo fence, with dense columns of Japanese text beside each scene, offering a designer strong examples of bold black-and-white line work and tightly framed vertical text layouts.

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