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小森宗次郎 編 · 1887 · 小森宗次郎 · 11 pictures

An 1887 Japanese ehon picture book, volume 3, titled Shitakiri Suzume (The Tongue-Cut Sparrow), compiled and published by Komori Sōjirō in Japan for a general readership. The pages are rough woodblock-style prints with handwritten kana sound-effect text floating beside the figures; a designer could take the bold, simplified outline figures in kimono, the stylised bamboo and pine foliage, and the spare interior and veranda settings as a lively, folkloric graphic language.

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