[絵本] 〔２３〕鬼神於松一代記上

辻岡文助編 · 1881 · 辻岡文助 · 18 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled and published by Tsujioka Bunsuke in 1881, presumably for popular readers. Its pages show woodblock-printed scenes of kimono-clad figures with dense columns of handwritten-style kana text around them. A designer might take from them the dense text-image layout, the patterned checked and striped kimono textures, and the bold, simple linework of Edo-derived print traditions.

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