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沢久次郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 20 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1887 by Sawa Kyujiro, a Tokyo publisher, for general readers, its pages showing a ghost-story narrative in a late Edo-style manner. The pictures are black-and-white woodcut scenes of kimono-clad figures set between columns of vertical kana text, offering a designer loose line-based figure compositions and dense text-and-image layouts to adapt.

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