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沢久次郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 20 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled and published by Sawa Kyujiro in 1887, printed from woodblock-style blocks with kana text running around the figures. The pictures show kimono-clad women and men in interiors and at doorways, with the printed text filling the spaces between them, offering a designer ready examples of Japanese block-print figure composition and dense text-and-image layout.

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