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沢久次郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 18 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book (ehon) compiled by Sawa Kyujiro and published by Sawa Kyujiro in 1887, apparently for a general reading public. Its woodblock-style pages show samurai in dramatic scenes, with vertical Japanese text columns filling the margins. A designer could take the bold black-and-white hatching of kimono folds, the strong diagonal poses, and the dense text-and-image layouts.

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