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辻岡文助編 · 1881 · 辻岡文助 · 19 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1881 by Tsujioka Bunsuke, presumably for a general popular readership, and it reproduces woodblock-style pages of kabuki-derived figures with columns of Japanese text. The pictures show seated and standing samurai in patterned kimono and hakama, set against interior screens, railings and tatami-like floors, with text columns running alongside the figures; a designer might take from them the bold patterned textiles, the tight black-and-white line hatching, and the compact framing of figure with vertical text.

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