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1890 · 綱島亀吉 · 5 pictures

An 1890 Japanese ehon picture book, volume 4 of Satomi Hakkenden, published by Tsunashima Kikichi, for general readers of popular woodblock-style fiction. Its pages show samurai in action and shrine scenes, rendered in dense black-and-white line work with printed Japanese columns of text. A designer could take from them the bold hatched patterns of kimono and armour, the strong figure silhouettes, and the way text blocks sit beside images.

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