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斎藤長八編 · 1887 · 斎藤長八 · 15 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Saitō Chōhachi and published in Tokyo in 1887, apparently for a general readership. Its woodblock-printed pages show crowded interiors and seated figures in kimono and hakama, with dense rows of kana and kanji text and square crest-like marks on the clothing. A designer might take its dense, cramped layout of figures, script and repeated motifs as a model for packed, text-heavy graphic compositions.

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