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大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 20 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) published in 1885 by Shonosuke Onishi, with its woodblock-style prints set among columns of text for a general reading public. The pictures show samurai in kimono and divided hakama seated or standing in interiors, with fine hatched patterns on their clothing and tightly drawn faces, offering a designer strong examples of dense black-and-white line work and layouts that combine image with calligraphic text blocks.

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