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沢久次郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 11 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Sawa Hisajirō and published in 1887, presumably for popular readers, with woodblock-printed pages mixing figure scenes and dense columns of Japanese text. The pages show seated courtiers and samurai in formal robes and patterned kimono, with clouds, screens and a small altar, and a designer could take from them the bold black-and-white hatching, decorative textile patterns and the strong interplay of calligraphic text beside figures.

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