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坂田善吉 編 · 1879 · 坂田善吉 · 11 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Sakata Zenkichi and published by him in 1879, with the story of Momotaro told in woodblock-printed pages. The four pages shown carry rough, high-contrast woodcut figures of an old man and a companion in a bamboo grove and interior, beside columns of hand-lettered kana text, offering a designer a sense of early Japanese popular print layout and the bold black-and-white graphic shorthand used for folk tales.

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