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桜姫曙草紙 : 絵本 巻之4

山東京伝 著, 歌川豊国 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 13 pictures

An illustrated volume of Japanese ehon picture-book fiction, written by Santō Kyōden and illustrated by Utagawa Toyokuni, published in Edo by Okada Mohei, likely in the early nineteenth century for a popular reading audience. Its black-and-white woodblock pages show scenes of figures on verandas, in gardens, and among rocky cliffs, with dense hatched foliage and cropped framing that suggest compositional tricks a designer could borrow for dynamic layouts.

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