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沢久次郎 編 · 1894 · 沢久次郎 · 3 pictures

An illustrated Japanese ehon picture book from 1894, published by Sawa Kyujiro, with woodblock-style prints of Edo-period scenes from the Nezumi Kozo outlaw story. The pages pair vertical columns of Japanese text with figures in patterned kimono, sword fights and a dog beneath a tiled eave, offering a designer bold black-and-white linework, dense text blocks and checked fabric patterns.

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