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沢久治郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久治郎 · 6 pictures

This Japanese woodblock picture book, an ehon compiled by Sawa Kyūjirō and published in 1887, presents scenes from a domestic drama in interior rooms with sliding paper screens. The pictures show kimono-clad figures in tense, staged poses, with bold black inked garments and dense calligraphic captions set into the panels. A designer could take from them the strong silhouettes of patterned dark robes, the rhythm of panel borders, and the inked brushwork of vertical text beside the 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