[絵本] 〔２〕鈴木主水白糸噺

児玉又七編 · 1880 · 大橋堂 · 19 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book (ehon) compiled by Kodama Matashichi and published by Ōhashidō in 1880, apparently for a general readership of popular fiction. Its woodblock-style prints show a woman seated at a low table writing or sewing beside a window, a pair of women crouched over patterned kimono fabric, and a man in a dark robe seated with a small figure, all framed by columns of vertical Japanese text. A designer might take the dense, high-contrast black-and-white patterning of the textiles and the balance between text blocks and figure groups.

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