[絵本] 〔１〕水錦隅田曙３編上

伊東専三編, 梅堂国政画 · 1879 · 金松堂 · 19 pictures

An 1879 Japanese ehon picture book published by Kinmatsudō, edited by Itō Senzō and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, printed as a woodblock-style book for a general readership. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock prints with kana and kanji text blocks set into the images, showing interior domestic scenes, a night garden under a full moon, a standing figure beside a signboard, and a shadowed silhouette against a shoji screen. A designer might take the strong black silhouette and the bold framing of text within image panels as models for graphic layout and figure-ground contrast.

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