[絵本] 〔２１〕鬼神の於松上

荒川吉五郎編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 16 pictures

An 1882 Japanese ehon picture book compiled by Arakawa Kichigoro and published by him, a woodblock-printed illustrated book from Japan aimed at general readers. Its pages show a seated man in a patterned kimono beside a window, a bare-chested man with a woman in a checked robe, a woman in a kitchen scattering something beside a mortar, and a figure lying under a dark patterned quilt, with kana text in the margins. A designer might take its bold, dense black linework, patterned textiles, and tightly packed captioned panels as a strong model for high-contrast graphic 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