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[絵本] 〔１５〕 天下茶屋孝士の仇討 上

永島福太郎 編, 孟斎芳虎 画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 11 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Tsutsumi Kichibei, with illustrations by Hoshai Yoshitora and text edited by Nagashima Fukutaro, aimed at popular readers. The four pictures show samurai in dark robes and patterned kimono wielding swords and spears, set against sliding doors, pine trees and bamboo, with dense vertical columns of Japanese text running beside the figures. A designer might take the bold black line work, strong diagonal poses, and the interplay of dense calligraphic text with figures as a model for compact narrative layouts.

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