[絵本] 〔２３〕恋の柵鈴木主水下

荒川吉五郎編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 18 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) edited by Arakawa Kichigorō and published by him in 1882, a woodblock-printed narrative in which kana-annotated text runs in columns beside the scenes. The four pages show a seated man in a patterned robe beside a tall pole, a samurai in a dark hakama standing before a shoji screen, a woman in a patterned kimono kneeling by a low table, and a woman in a striped kimono at a doorway, all in bold black-and-white line with dense vertical text. A designer could take from them the strong contrast of flat black ink shapes against open white, and the way columns of text and figures interlock as a single page layout.

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