桜姫曙草紙 : 絵本 巻之5
A Japanese ehon picture book, volume 5 of Sakurahime Akebono Zoshi, written by Santo Kyoden and illustrated by Utagawa Toyokuni, published in Edo by Okada Mohei for a popular reading audience. The woodblock pages show scenes of interior rooms with screens, figures in kimono, and a lantern and drifting fabric, with dialogue written in speech balloons above the action. A designer could take from them the compact staging of Edo-period narrative, with framed interior views, flat patterned textiles, and text integrated into the image as a layout device.
