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[絵本] 〔2〕 倭洋妾横浜美談 下

武田交来 編, 大蘇芳年 画 · 1880 · 船津忠次郎 · 18 pictures

An 1880 Japanese ehon picture book, volume 2 of a Yokohama story, compiled by Takeda Kōrai and illustrated by Taiso Yoshitoshi, published by Funatsu Chujiro in Tokyo for general readers of woodblock-printed fiction. The pages pair woodblock figure scenes with dense columns of Japanese text, showing interiors, windows, and figures in patterned kimono in a period Japanese style a designer could draw on for pattern, layout, and text-image composition.

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