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辻岡文助編 · 1881 · 辻岡文助 · 17 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) titled after the life of the warlord Kato Kiyomasa, published in 1881 by Tsujioka Bunsuke as an illustrated popular reading for general readers. The four pages show woodblock figures in patterned kimono seated or moving among dense columns of Japanese text, with the text blocks used as a graphic texture. A designer could draw on the contrast between crisp figure silhouettes, patterned textile fills, and the dense typographic blocks surrounding them.

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