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永島辰五郎 編 · 1882 · 小森宗次郎 · 18 pictures

A Japanese woodblock ehon picture book, volume 10 part 1, compiled by Nagashima Tatsugorō and published in 1882 by Komori Sōjirō, aimed at general readers of Meiji-era popular illustrated fiction. Its pictures are crisp black-line woodblock scenes of seated and standing figures in patterned kimono, with dense vertical columns of Japanese text beside them, offering a designer strong examples of kimono pattern, dramatic gesture, and integrated text-and-image layout.

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