[絵本] 〔２〕天一坊一代記上

辻岡文助編 · 1881 · 辻岡文助 · 17 pictures

This is a Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) published in 1881 by Tsujioka Bunsuke, compiled as the first volume of a serialised biography of the pretender Tenichibō, aimed at general readers of popular fiction. The four pictures are woodblock-style scenes of seated and kneeling figures in kimono beside screens, lattice windows and low tables, with dense columns of hand-lettered text filling the margins; a designer could take their compact figure groupings, patterned textiles and tightly packed text-and-image layouts as reference.

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