[絵本] 〔５〕弥生雪桜田新聞１号

永島福太郎編, 孟斎芳虎画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 19 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book printed in 1880 by publisher Tsutsumi Kichibei, with text compiled by Nagashima Fukutaro and illustrations by Hōsai Yoshitora, aimed at a general readership of popular news-style print. Its woodblock pictures show samurai in formal and dark robes, seated in interiors with lattice screens and carrying swords, with dense vertical Japanese columns of text beside the figures. A designer might take the bold black-and-white hatching of robes, the compact calligraphic text panels, and the stiff, theatrical poses as models for graphic patterning.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

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