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荒川吉五郎編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 18 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1882 by Arakawa Kichigoro, compiled by Arakawa for a general readership, its title reading as a tale of Shinshichi Sadanobu. The pages pair woodblock-style figures in kimono with dense columns of vertical Japanese text, and the figures show stiff, staged poses in interiors with screens, sliding doors and low tables, offering a designer a compact model of how text and figure were arranged on a single printed page.

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