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絵本更科草紙 : 勇婦全伝 後編 巻之4

栗杖亭鬼卵 著, 一峰斎馬円 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 4 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, written by Kurikuteiki Ranran and illustrated by Ippōsai Bae, published by Okada Mohei for general readers of popular fiction. The pictures are black-and-white line prints with dense hatching and open compositions of interiors, gardens, and rocky waterfalls, offering a designer strong examples of inked contour line, layered foliage, and framed vertical text panels.

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