[絵本] 〔１〕嵯峨奥妖猫奇談中

竹柴金作 (琴作) 編, 梅堂国政画 · 1881 · 栄久堂 · 18 pictures

This Japanese ehon picture book, published in 1881 by Eikyudo, has text by Takenoshi Kinsaku (Kotsukuri) and illustrations by Umedo Kunimasa, presented as a popular woodblock-printed tale for general readers. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodblock prints with dense columns of Japanese text set around figures in kimono and armour, showing samurai, a scribe at a table, a shrine-like wooden structure, and a dark-robed figure with a cat, useful to a designer for layout ideas that combine image and vertical text blocks.

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