[絵本] 〔２〕赤縄の猿曳上

竹内栄久編, 梅堂国政画 · 1883 · 関根孝助 · 22 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book, published in 1883 by Sekine Kōsuke, with illustrations by Umedō Kunimasa and text compiled by Takeuchi Eiku, for a general reading audience. The pictures are monochrome woodblock prints of figures in kimono in domestic interiors with screens and cabinets, with columns of hand-lettered text woven around them. A designer might take from them the economy of black line on white, the patterned kimono textures, and the way text and image 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