[絵本] 〔１〕国定忠次義名の高島３編上

川上謂一郎 (鼠辺) 編, 梅堂国政画 · 1880 · 金松堂 · 18 pictures

An 1880 Japanese ehon picture book published by Kinmatsudo, edited by Kawakami Ichiro'o under the pen name Sohen and illustrated by Umedo Kunimasa, likely for a general popular readership. Its woodblock-style pages show action scenes of swordfighting men in dark kimono among pine trees and rocky cliffs, framed by dense columns of Japanese text. A designer might take from them the bold black-and-white linework, dynamic diagonal compositions, and the interplay of dense calligraphic blocks with figure drawing.

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