[絵本] 〔２１〕浦里時次郎明烏夢の合雪上

沢久次郎編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 21 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled and published by Sawa Kyūjirō in 1887, its title reading Urazato Tokijirō Akegarasu Yume no Aiyuki, a dramatized love story set in the pleasure quarters for a popular readership. Its woodblock-printed pages pair courtesan and lover figures in patterned kimono with dense columns of Japanese text running around the images, and a designer might take from them the tight interplay of black line, flat printed pattern, and vertical text blocks.

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