[絵本] 〔１〕五人殲苦魔物語３編下

柳水亭種清編 · 1882 · 小林鉄次郎 · 16 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated fiction volume (ehon) compiled by Ryūsuitei Tanesei and published by Kobayashi Tetsujirō in 1882 for a popular reading audience. Its woodblock-style pictures show swordplay, interiors with shoji screens, a rainy night scene, and seated figures at a meal, each framed by dense columns of kana-and-kanji text. A designer could take from them the compositional habit of placing dense vertical text beside figures, and the strong black silhouettes against pale interior space.

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