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[絵本] 〔３６〕 妹背山婦女庭訓

沢久次郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 14 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book published in 1887 by Sawa Hisajirō, printed from woodblocks with kana text columns beside the scenes. The woodcut pictures show kabuki-style figures in patterned kimono, among them a fight, a seated man reading a scroll, and a woman at a wooden bridge. A designer might take from them the dense black-and-white linework, the bold patterned textiles of the robes, and the tight integration of text and image on the page.

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