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[絵本] 〔１３〕 彦山霊化夢孝女仇討 上

永島福太郎 編, 孟斎芳虎 画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 13 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book, published in 1880 by Tsutsumi Kichibei, with illustrations by Hōsai Yoshitora and text compiled by Nagashima Fukutarō for a popular readership. Its woodblock prints show armoured samurai in dramatic poses beside dense columns of kana text, offering a designer bold figure silhouettes, hatched striped hakama patterns, and the interplay of vertical text blocks with image.

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