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岡本起泉 編 · 1882 · 金松堂 · 13 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Okamoto Kiizumi and published by Kinshodo in Tokyo in 1882, aimed at general popular readers of serialized fiction. The woodblock-printed pages mix dense columns of kana text with framed scenes of figures in patterned kimono, interiors with sliding screens, and a standing man in a checked robe. A designer could take the bold black-and-white patterning of textiles, the tight relation between text blocks and small pictorial panels, and the compressed, flat staging of domestic interiors.

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