[絵本] 〔２５〕笠松峠鬼人お松一代記下

沢久次郎編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 19 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1887 by Sawa Kyūjirō, likely for popular readers, telling the second part of the Kasamatsu pass tale of the female outlaw Omatsu. The pages are woodblock-printed with kana-annotated text columns beside large figure scenes, showing armoured samurai, a fighting woman in patterned robes, and pine-covered landscape. A designer could take from them the bold black-line figure work, dense patterned textiles and armour, and the framing of action inside text-filled panels.

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