[絵本] 〔２２〕石川五右衛門真砂出立上

沢久次郎編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 19 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Sawa Kyūjirō and published by him in 1887, illustrated with woodblock-style prints for a general readership. The pages show a bounded figure of a man in a striped kimono with a ground-level stage-like setting, paired with dense columns of Japanese text running down the margins. A designer could take from them the layout of text beside framed images, the bold black linework of woodblock illustration, and the patterned checked and striped textiles of the costumes.

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