西洋手品種本 : 絵本
A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book of Western magic tricks (西洋手品種本, ehon), compiled by Nakamura Asakichi and published by him in 1887 for popular readers. The woodblock-style pictures are small, rough and densely framed by Japanese columns of text, and show props such as a fabric banner, a bundled figure and a candle over a bowl. A designer might borrow the crude, hand-cut line quality, the mix of vertical kana text with image panels, and the flat black-and-white patterning.
