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[絵本] 〔２〕 柳荒美談伊賀の上野仇討

牧金之助 編 · 1891 · 金寿堂 · 3 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and published by Kinjudō in 1891, aimed at general readers and built around a vendetta story. The three pictures are woodblock-style black-and-white prints: a samurai pulling back a man at a doorway, a seated swordsman before a shelf of jars in an interior, and a chrysanthemum draped over an octagonal stone lantern beneath a pipe. A designer could take from them the bold hatched inking, dense calligraphic panels, and the strong figure-to-background contrast typical of late nineteenth-century Japanese print work.

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