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荒川吉五郎 編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 17 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1882 by Arakawa Kichigoro, who also edited it, with its printed woodblock-style pages densely set with columns of Japanese text. The pictures show seated and standing figures in kimono, with the text running in vertical columns around them, and a designer might take from them the tight interplay of calligraphic columns and small figure vignettes.

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