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斎藤長八 編 · 1887 · 斎藤長八 · 9 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) compiled by Saitō Chōhachi and published in Tokyo in October 1887 for a general readership. Its pages are dense black-and-white line blocks of figures in crowded domestic and street scenes, with vertical Japanese captions and labels set among the figures. A designer could take from them the tightly packed composition, the hatched cloth patterns on robes, and the way text is woven into the image as a graphic element.

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