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高畠藍泉 著, 佐瀬得所 書, 岸田吟香 閲 · 1875 · 武田伝右衛門 · 6 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon printed in 1875 by Takeda Denemon, written by Takahata Ransen and calligraphed by Sase Tokusho, with Kishida Ginko's supervision, offering model cursive calligraphy of Chinese poetic phrases for readers learning brush writing. The pages show bold running-script characters with small furigana readings beside them, set in vertical columns on plain paper, so a designer could draw on the pared-back rhythm of brushstroke, the stacked vertical line and the restrained use of small kana annotations.

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