[絵本] 〔３〕霜夜鐘十字辻筮４編上

武田交来編, 大蘇芳年画 · 1880 · 船津忠次郎 · 15 pictures

This Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon), part 3 of a serialized kabuki-style tale titled 霜夜鐘十字辻筮, was compiled by Takeda Koraï and illustrated by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, published in 1880 by Funatsu Chujiro in Tokyo for a popular readership. Its woodblock-printed pages pair dense columns of vertical Japanese text with bold figures in patterned kimono, showing crisp hatched textiles, expressive faces, and tightly framed poses a designer could borrow for graphic pattern work.

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