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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1889 · 堤吉兵衛 · 10 pictures

An 1889 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon), volume 11 of the Jiraiya story, compiled and published by Tsutsumi Kichibei, printed in woodblock-style black and white for general readers. Its four pictures show a robed warrior with a staff in an interior, a figure in a dark patterned robe standing on white paper-like waves, a seated man in a patterned kimono amid scattered papers, and a standing samurai with a sword framed against a dark rocky backdrop with a text panel above. A designer could draw on the bold black linework, strong hatching, and the dense calligraphic text blocks 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