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荒川吉五郎編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 18 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book issued in 1882 by the publisher Arakawa Kichigorō, apparently compiled by him, for a general popular readership. Its woodblock-style pages pair vertical columns of kana text with stark black-and-white figure scenes, showing men in kimono and a woman with a pagoda behind her. A designer might take its dense, legible text-and-image layouts and bold line-only figures as a model for combining narrative captions with simple graphic illustration.

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