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辻岡文助編 · 1881 · 辻岡文助 · 17 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book printed in 1881 by Tsujioka Bunsuke, a Tokyo publisher, probably for popular readers of the Meiji period. Its pages show samurai and townsmen in black-and-white woodblock-style prints, with vertical columns of kana text filling the margins around the figures. A designer might take the bold silhouetted black garments, dense calligraphic text blocks, and the strong contrast of figures against hatched backgrounds as graphic devices.

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