[絵本] 〔４１〕天保山浪花大塩下

大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 17 pictures

A Meiji-era (1885) Japanese picture book, an ehon compiled by Ōnishi Shōnosuke and published by him, presenting a woodblock-printed narrative with kana and kanji text running in columns beside the images. The pictures show samurai in armoured and striped robes engaged in combat and conversation, with dense black-line hatching, patterned hakama and crisply cut calligraphic captions that a designer could take as a model for strong contrast, figure silhouettes and integrated text-and-image 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