[絵本] 〔２７〕侠客幡随院長兵衛一代記下

荒川吉五郎編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 17 pictures

An 1882 Japanese ehon picture book compiled by Arakawa Kichigoro and published by him, a popular illustrated book for general readers in Japan about the chivalrous commoner Banzui-in Chōbei. The pictures are woodblock-style prints of samurai and townsmen in striped and checked kimono, with dense vertical columns of Japanese text beside the figures, offering a designer strong examples of bold black-and-white graphic composition and calligraphic text integrated into image.

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