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大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 16 pictures

A Meiji-era (1885) Japanese picture book (ehon) published by Ōnishi Shōnosuke, the second volume of a story about the Edo-period wealthy patron Kimon, set in Edo for a general readership. Its woodblock-style pages pair seated and standing townsmen and merchants in kimono with columns of kana text running down the margins. A designer might take the dense text-and-image layouts, the bold black linework, and the framed inset scenes as models for combining narrative captions with figures.

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