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深谷亀太郎編 · 1887 · 深谷亀太郎 · 15 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Fukaya Kametarō and published in 1887, printed for a general readership with woodblock-style black-and-white illustrations. The pictures show crowded scenes of samurai-style figures in patterned kimono, many bearing round family crests, set among columns of vertical Japanese text. A designer might take the dense crest patterns, the hatched kimono textures and the bold vertical lettering as graphic motifs for pattern, border or typographic layouts.

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