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一平全集 第4巻

岡本一平 著 · 1930 · 先進社 · 439 pictures

A 1930 Japanese volume from the collected works of the cartoonist Okamoto Ippei, published by Senshinsha, containing comic picture-book (ehon) panels in a woodblock-like ink line style. The panels show a robed figure kneeling beside a small child at a stone lantern, a demon-like creature hauling a large jar with a fierce face at its heels, a crowd of figures tumbling across tiled roofs, and two women and a man in patterned kimono on a path. A designer could take the economical black outline, stippled texture, and loose comic gesture as a model for simple narrative figure drawing.

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