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守川音次郎 編 · 1880 · 小森宗次郎 · 10 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Morikawa Otojirō and published in 1880 by Komori Sōjirō, illustrating scenes from the kabuki drama Kagami-yama Kokyō no Nishiki. The pictures are woodblock-style black line drawings of kimono-clad figures with umbrellas, plum and cherry branches, interiors and screens, each framed by columns of calligraphy. A designer might take the dense textile patterns, the framed page layouts and the elegant pared-back figure poses.

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