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沢久次郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 18 pictures

This is a Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Sawa Kyūjirō and published by him in 1887, with woodblock-style pages of text in columns beside single figures. The pages show seated and standing figures in patterned kimono, a window screen, a garden tree and a shaded hut, drawn in bold black outlines with sparse shading. A designer could take from them the economical use of dense black line, the figure-and-text page layout, and the patterned textile motifs.

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