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[絵本] 〔2〕 菊重延命嚢 4編上

久保田彦作 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1879 · 大倉孫兵衛 · 18 pictures

An 1879 Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Kubota Hikosaku and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, published by Okura Magobei in Japan for a popular readership. Its woodblock pages show seated and standing figures in kimono beside dense columns of Japanese text, with bold black-and-white line work a designer could borrow for graphic framing and vertical text layouts.

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