[絵本] 〔３〕霜夜鐘十字辻筮４編中

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

This is a Japanese illustrated fiction volume (ehon) from 1880, compiled by Takeda Kōrai and illustrated by Yoshitoshi, published by Funatsu Tadajirō in Tokyo for a general reading public. Its pages pair woodblock-style figure scenes with dense vertical columns of text, showing men in patterned kimono and hakama in tense confrontations and conversations. A designer could draw on the strong contrast between solid black robes and fine hatched textile patterns, and on the way text columns frame the figures.

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