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荒川吉五郎 編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 15 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) compiled by Arakawa Kichigorō and published by him in 1882, printed for a general readership of popular fiction and theatre fans. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock prints of kabuki-style scenes, with dense calligraphic text columns beside the figures; a designer might take the bold patterned kimono textures, strong black-and-white figure silhouettes, and compact text-and-image page 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