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荒川吉五郎 編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 14 pictures

A Meiji-era (1882) Japanese picture book, an ehon compiled and published by Arakawa Kichigorō, printed as woodblock-style pages with columns of kana text beside the scenes. The pages show samurai and monks in interior and street settings, with action poses and dense hand-lettered captions that a designer could take as models for compact narrative panel layouts and bold black-and-white figure silhouettes.

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