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仮名垣魯文 (猫々道人) 編 · 1880 · 金松堂 · 17 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Kanagaki Robun under the pen name Neko Neko Dojin, published in 1880 by Kinmatsudo in Tokyo for a general reading public. Its pages are woodblock-printed with vertical Japanese text beside the images, and the pictures show scenes of soldiers and battle in a Western-style military setting. A designer might take from them the bold hatching, dense crowd compositions, and the contrast between dense text columns and black-and-white figure scenes.

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