[絵本] 〔６〕色吉原盛糸裲襠中

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

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1882 by Tōsendō, with text by Okamoto Kisen and revised by Yoshikawa Shunto, aimed at a general popular readership. Its woodblock-style pages pair dense columns of kana text with black-and-white scenes of Yoshiwara courtesans, household interiors and street life. A designer could take from them the bold hatched linework, the strong figure silhouettes set against sparse architectural frames, and the crowded text-and-image layouts typical of late nineteenth-century Japanese print.

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