落し噺 : 新作画本
A Meiji-era Japanese comic picture book (ehon) of humorous anecdotes called rakugo-style 'otoshibanashi', compiled by Nakamura Asakichi and published by him in 1887 for a general popular readership. The pages pair woodblock-style figure scenes, mostly of domestic interiors, with columns of hand-written kana text, and the images show a designer simple, bold figure poses and economical line work.
