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谷口貞次郎編 · 1887 · 谷口貞次郎 · 13 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) compiled by Taniguchi Teijirō and published in Tokyo in July 1887 for a general readership. The pictures are crowded, graphic woodcut scenes of seated and standing figures in kimono, with dense hand-lettered Japanese captions and speech labels set into the frames. A designer might take the bold black-and-white line work, tight panel layouts and calligraphic text blocks as models for compact, high-contrast graphic composition.

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