[絵本] 〔２〕白菖阿繁顛末初編下

岡本起泉 (勘造) 編, 芳川春濤閲 · 1882 · 島鮮堂 · 16 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) from 1882, issued by the publisher Tomosendō, compiled by Okamoto Kisen with revision by Yoshikawa Shuntō for a general reading public. Its pages pair framed black-and-white illustrations of women in patterned kimono and a samurai in a checked robe with columns of vertical Japanese text running down the page. A designer might take from them the dense interplay of figure drawing and calligraphic text, and the patterned textile motifs on kimono and robes.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

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