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沢久次郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 18 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Sawa Kyujiro and published by him in 1887, with woodblock-style prints of kabuki-like actors in dramatic poses beside columns of vertical Japanese text. The four pictures show men in patterned kimono and dark hakama in tense confrontations, with dense graphic pattern in the backgrounds, offering a designer examples of bold black-and-white figure compositions framed by text blocks and geometric backdrops.

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