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牧金之助 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1888 · 金寿堂 · 2 pictures

An 1888 Japanese picture book (ehon) published by Kinjudō, edited by Maki Kinnosuke and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, likely for a general readership of children and adults. The two pictures are woodblock-style black-and-white prints: one shows a richly robed woman in a flowered kimono beside a garden lantern and blossoming tree, the other an elderly man gesturing to a seated child beneath a hanging banner with vertical Japanese characters. A designer could take from them the dense patterned kimono textures, the bordered panel layouts, and the expressive gesture and posture of figures in a narrative scene.

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