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深谷亀太郎 編 · 1887 · 深谷亀太郎 · 6 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture book from 1887 (Meiji 17), compiled by Fukaya Kametarō and published by him, likely for a general readership of the period. Its pages are woodblock-style prints of kabuki-like figures in costume, with stylised hair, robes and crest-marked garments, and handwritten Japanese labels beside them. A designer could take bold black-and-white figure silhouettes, dense patterned textiles and expressive hand-lettered captions as graphic models.

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