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小杉未醒 訳・画 · 1910 · 左久良書房 · 71 pictures

A 1910 Japanese illustrated edition of the Journey to the West story, translated and drawn by Komatsu Mishō and published by Sakura Shobō in Tokyo for a general readership of picture-book (ehon) buyers. Its black-and-white line drawings are sketchy and rotated on the scans, showing robed travellers, a pilgrim with a staff, a plump figure in a loose robe, and a seated group under a tree, with simple ink contours and open white ground that a designer could adapt for hand-drawn caricature or folk-style character work.

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