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篠田仙果編, 生田芳春画 · 1879 · 山村金三郎 · 16 pictures

This Meiji-era Japanese picture book, compiled by Shinoda Senka and illustrated by Ikuta Yoshiharu and published in 1879 by Yamamura Kinsaburo, is an ehon of woodblock illustrations with dense kana text in the Japanese manner. The pictures show kabuki-style figures in patterned kimono and hakama, set into columns of printed script, offering a designer ideas about layering figures with calligraphic text and flat, high-contrast black-and-white pattern.

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