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牧金之助 編 · 1890 · 金寿堂 · 1 picture

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and published by Kinjudō in 1890, presumably for a popular readership of illustrated tales. The single picture is a woodblock-style print of a house corner with a balcony railing, a blossoming plum branch, a hanging lantern, and a framed caption panel in kana and kanji at the bottom; a designer might take its tight diagonal framing, dense hatched shadows, and cropped architectural detail as a model for compositions built around a caption box.

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