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深谷亀太郎 編 · 1887 · 深谷亀太郎 · 12 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) compiled by Fukaya Kametarō and published in 1887, probably for a general popular readership. Its pages show crowded groups of figures in period dress, with dense calligraphic captions and roundel crests on the costumes. A designer could take from them the energy of packed, multi-figure compositions, bold black-and-white block contrast, and the decorative use of mon family crests and vertical text panels.

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