[絵本] 橋供養梵字文覚新皿屋舗月雨暈中

竹内栄久編, 梅堂国政画 · 1884 · 栄久堂 · 19 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book from 1884, compiled by Takeuchi Eiku and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, published by Eikudō in Japan for popular readers. Its pages show woodblock-style samurai and kabuki-like figures in dense black-and-white line work, set among columns of Japanese text, offering a designer bold figure silhouettes, patterned kimono motifs, and the interplay of text blocks with illustration.

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