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[絵本] 〔2〕 佐倉宗吾実伝

児玉又七 編 · 1891 · 児玉又七 · 18 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book (ehon) compiled by Kodama Matashichi and published in 1891, telling the true story of Sakura Sogoro, a village headman. Its woodblock-style black-and-white pictures show seated and standing figures in robes, interior settings with sliding screens and floorboards, and kana text in columns beside each scene, offering a designer examples of compositional framing around vertical text blocks and dense ink linework.

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