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国史略 : 絵本訓蒙 巻之10

堤正勝 訳, 重野安繹 校 · 1874 · 光啓社 · 6 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from 1874, published by Kōkeisha, with a text by Tsutsumi Masakatsu and annotations by Shigeno Yasutsugu, aimed at general readers learning national history. Its pictures are simple black-line woodcuts with compact vertical columns of kana and kanji beside each scene, showing historical figures in outdoor and palace settings. A designer could take their economical line work, open horizontal compositions and framed text panels as a reference for sparse, narrative illustration.

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