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山本常次郎 編 · 1889 · 隆湊堂 · 5 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1889 by Ryūsōdō, compiled by Yamamoto Tsunejirō, retelling the story of the exile Shunkan on an island. The woodblock-style pages pair full-width scenes with dense columns of kana text, and the spreads show ships, rocky shores, and seated figures in robes. A designer could draw on their bold black-and-white inked contrast, the wave patterns rendered as repeated curved lines, and the framed panels with ornamental borders.

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