絵本稗史小説 第12集
A 1920 Japanese illustrated fiction volume (ehon hishi shosetsu, vol. 12) published by Hakubunkan, apparently for general readers of popular serial stories. Its pictures are woodblock-style line illustrations with dense Japanese columns of text, showing a woman under willows, a man on a path among rocks, a seated official in a verandah, and courtiers in a room. A designer might take the bold black-and-white linework, the framed text panels, and the compressed compositions with figures tucked into corners.
