絵本胆太郎夢物語 5巻 [1]

・斎, 主人, 環, 玉江, ・斎主人序, 環玉江画 · 1800 · 山崎屋嘉兵衛 · 39 pictures

An 1800 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) in five volumes, published by Yamazakiya Kahei and illustrated by Tamae Kan, with text by its author Saishu Shujin, aimed at a general reading public. Its pages are black-line woodblock prints with poem or dialogue text set in cartouches above and beside the figures. The scenes show seated and standing figures in patterned kimono on wooden verandas and along a riverbank, with a designer able to draw on the simple contour line, the repeated kimono crests and dot patterns, and the economical spatial layering of figures against open ground.

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