[絵本] 〔１〕沢村田之助曙草紙５編下

岡本起泉 (勘造) 編, 芳川春濤閲 · 1882 · 島鮮堂 · 19 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1882 by Shimasendō, compiled by Okamoto Kizumi with Yoshikawa Shunto as reviser, illustrating a serialized story about the kabuki actor Sawamura Tanosuke. Its pages show robed figures in kimono, dense calligraphic columns and small inset vignettes, offering a designer strong examples of hand-cut line, patterned textile rendering and vertical text layouts.

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