[絵本] 〔１０〕夜討曽我狩場曙第一番目

武田交来 (勝次郎) 編, 梅堂国政画 · 1881 · 大倉孫兵衛 · 19 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book from 1881, published by Ōkura Magobei, with illustrations by Umedō Kunimasa and text compiled by Takeda Kōrai, made for popular readers of kabuki-derived tales. The pages are woodblock prints with panels of armoured warriors and kimono-clad figures alongside columns of Japanese text. A designer could draw on the bold black ink silhouettes, the tiered panel layouts, and the dense vertical calligraphy as a graphic structure.

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