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牧金之助 編 · 1885 · 牧金之助 · 18 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book of the Ohan Kumematsu love story, published by Maki Kinnosuke in 1885 for a popular readership. Its woodblock-style pages show seated figures in striped and checked kimono within tight panels, with columns of vertical Japanese text set beside the images, offering a designer compact compositions of figures framed by architecture and text blocks.

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