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永島福太郎 編, 孟斎芳虎 画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 19 pictures

An 1880 Japanese ehon picture book published by Tsutsumi Kichibei, illustrated by Hōsai Yoshitora and edited by Nagashima Fukutarō, for a popular readership. Its woodblock pages show samurai in interiors and outdoor scenes with dense columns of vertical kana text, offering designers a model of bold black-line figure work, patterned kimono textiles, and crowded text-image 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