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[絵本] 〔３〕 日蓮上人御一代記

1890 · 綱島亀吉 · 2 pictures

A late nineteenth-century Japanese ehon picture book, published in 1890 by Tsunashima Kamekichi, telling the life of the priest Nichiren in woodblock-printed scenes with Japanese text. The first spread shows a snowy mountain scene with a monk carrying a lantern and a seated figure in a hut, while the second shows a robed priest before a sunburst and a figure seated in a pine tree against radiating rays. A designer could take the bold radiating sunburst lines, the dense black-and-white snow patterns, and the compact vertical text columns as models for graphic composition.

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