[絵本] 〔３〕仮名手本忠臣蔵下

沢久次郎編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 18 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1887 by Sawa Kyujiro, a Tokyo publisher, presenting the second half of the Chushingura story of the forty-seven ronin for a popular readership. The pictures show samurai and courtly figures in patterned kimono, drawn with bold black outlines and dense textile patterns, with Japanese text columns beside them; a designer might take the strong graphic line, the textile pattern work, and the compact figure groupings.

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