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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1889 · 堤吉兵衛 · 7 pictures

An 1889 Japanese ehon picture book compiled by Tsutsumi Kichibei, a woodblock-style printed volume of the Kusunoki Masashige story for a general reading public. Its pages pair brush-ink figures with dense columns of vertical Japanese text, and the figures are cut in bold black masses with crisp contour lines. A designer might take the strong figure silhouettes, the framed panel layouts and the calligraphic text blocks as graphic structure for historical or period-themed work.

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