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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1889 · 堤吉兵衛 · 3 pictures

An 1889 Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled and published by Tsutsumi Kichibei, apparently aimed at general readers in Meiji-era Japan. Its three pictures are halftone-like black-and-white prints, and the first two show an indoor scene of a seated man in a striped kimono facing a kneeling figure, and a man writing at a low table beside a potted plant; the third shows a standing man in Western dress with a cane before kneeling figures under a tree, which a designer could draw on for mixed Japanese and Western period staging, clean interior line work, and figures placed against open backgrounds.

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