[絵本] 〔２９〕梅川忠兵衛恋飛脚大和往来上

沢久次郎編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 20 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1887 by Sawa Kyujiro, a printed woodblock-style volume telling a love-and-debt story from Chikamatsu's Umekawa Chubei theatre tradition, aimed at general readers. Its pages pair kana-filled text columns with bold black-and-white figure scenes: a woman seated at a writing desk, a man in striped robes on a bridge, a man standing under a blossoming tree, and a reclining figure beside a screen with chrysanthemum motifs. A designer might take the strong ink-line figure drawing, the patterned kimono textures, and the dense vertical text blocks as a graphic layout model.

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