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辻岡文助編 · 1881 · 辻岡文助 · 19 pictures

A Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) compiled by Tsujioka Bunsuke and published in 1881, presumably for popular readers of the Meiji period. Its pages pair woodblock-style figures with dense columns of hand-lettered Japanese text, with the illustrations sitting in blocks beside or below the writing. A designer might take from them the bold, simplified brushwork of outline figures, the flat black-and-white contrast of the print, and the strong interplay between calligraphic text columns and images.

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