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大西庄之助 編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 19 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture book, published in 1885 by Shōnosuke Ōnishi, with Japanese text columns beside woodblock-style scenes of seated and standing figures in patterned kimono. The pictures show interior and garden settings with bamboo, a brazier, a shoji screen and a wooden doorway, which a designer could use for flat ink-line figure drawing and compact panel composition.

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