[絵本] 〔１〕沢村田之助曙草紙３編中

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

This is a Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book, Sawamura Tanosuke's Akebono Zoshi part 3, compiled by Okamoto Kizen and checked by Yoshikawa Shunto, published in 1882 by Shimasendo in Tokyo for general readers. Its woodblock-style pages pair dense columns of kana text with small framed scenes of townsfolk, a seated man with a wooden tray, and a figure running along a riverbank. A designer might take the compact interplay of black calligraphic blocks and simple figure vignettes as a model for layout and hand-lettered panels.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

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