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泉竜亭是正著, 守川周重画 · 1880 · 荒川藤兵衛 · 15 pictures

An 1880 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) published by Arakawa Tōbei, written by Izumi Ryūtei Zesei and illustrated by Morikawa Chikashige, presenting a vendetta story for a popular readership. Its woodblock-style pages pair kimono-clad figures and swordsmen with dense columns of hand-lettered Japanese text, offering a designer examples of compact figure compositions and calligraphic text blocks framed by bold crest-marked clothing.

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