[絵本] 〔２〕白菖阿繁顛末２編下

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

An 1882 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) published by Shimasendō, written by Okamoto Kisen with revision by Yoshikawa Shuntō, presumably for a general popular readership. Its pictures are monochrome woodblock-style scenes of interiors with tatami floors, sliding shoji screens and figures in kimono, with dense vertical Japanese text columns beside them. A designer might take the strong patterned contrast of striped and star-dotted kimono, the checkered floor and the lattice screens as graphic motifs.

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