[絵本] 〔１〕沢村田之助曙草紙２編上

岡本起泉 (勘造) 編, 芳川春濤閲 · 1882 · 島鮮堂 · 20 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book (ehon) from 1882, published by Shimasendō and compiled by Okamoto Kizumi with Yoshikawa Shuntō as reviser, aimed at general readers of popular fiction. The pictures are woodblock-style black-and-white prints of seated figures in kimono in interior rooms with shoji screens, each framed with dense columns of hand-lettered Japanese text. A designer might take the strong figure-and-text layouts, the patterned kimono textiles, and the crisp 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