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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1888 · 堤吉兵衛 · 9 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture book published in 1888 by Tsutsumi Kichibei, a Meiji-era woodblock-printed illustrated book, likely for popular readers, with text columns running beside each scene. The four pictures show a woman in a dark kimono in a doorway, a figure leaning against a wall, and a woman holding a parasol in the rain; a designer could take the bold black-and-white blocks of pattern, the dense hatching on kimono, and the vertical calligraphy panels as graphic devices.

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