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[絵本] 〔１〕 雪月花三遊新話 初編上

篠田仙果 編, 生田芳春 画 · 1879 · 山村金三郎 · 17 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) from 1879, compiled by Shinoda Senka and illustrated by Ikuta Yoshiharu, published in Tokyo by Yamamura Kinzaburo for a general reading public. Its woodblock pages place figures in patterned kimono and rough brush-like text blocks around them, showing a designer how illustration and dense vertical text can share one page.

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