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[絵本] 〔2〕 菊重延命嚢 5編上

久保田彦作 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1879 · 大倉孫兵衛 · 15 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) from 1879, compiled by Kubota Hikosaku and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, published by Ōkura Magobei in Tokyo for general readers of popular fiction. The pictures show women in kimono in interior settings, with dense columns of Japanese text running beside and across the images, offering a designer clear examples of woodblock-era line work, patterned textiles, and text-image layout.

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