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荒川吉五郎 編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 17 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) compiled by Arakawa Kichigorō and published by him in 1882, a volume with text columns beside each image. Its four pages show a man in a willow-shaded street, a seated figure in a thatched hut with a soldier-like man, a scholar at a desk, and a seated man with a sword, all in bold black line with dense calligraphic captions. A designer might take its strong contrast linework, the packed text-and-image layout, and the economical crowd and figure poses.

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