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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1888 · 堤吉兵衛 · 6 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) compiled by Tsutsumi Kichibei and published by him in 1888, presumably for popular readers of the period. Its woodblock-style pages show kimono-clad figures in interiors with sliding screens, with short captions and speech balloons in the text columns, offering a designer strong examples of compositional framing, dense black ink contrast, and calligraphic text integrated into images.

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