[絵本] 〔４〕幻阿竹噂之聞書２編上

岡本起泉 (勘造) 編, 芳川春濤閲 · 1882 · 島鮮堂 · 18 pictures

An 1882 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) issued by publisher Tōsendō, written by Okamoto Kizen and revised by Yoshikawa Shuntō, aimed at general readers in Meiji-era Japan. Its woodblock-style black-and-white pages show interior scenes of figures in patterned kimono beside screens, sliding doors and low tables, with handwritten Japanese text running in columns around them; a designer could borrow the dense ink linework, the patterned textile motifs and the crowded text-and-image 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