[絵本] 〔５〕坂東彦三倭一流３編上

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

A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book (ehon) of 1882, compiled by Okamoto Kisen with Yoshikawa Shunto as reviser and published by Shisendo, aimed at general readers of popular fiction. Its woodblock-style pages show indoor and doorway scenes of figures in kimono with columns of vertical Japanese text beside them, offering a designer strong examples of dense black-and-white line work, patterned checked cloth, and text integrated into image panels.

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