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小森宗次郎 編 · 1887 · 小森宗次郎 · 9 pictures

An 1887 Japanese ehon picture book, volume 2, of the Momotaro folktale, compiled by Komori Sōjirō and published by him in Japan for young readers. The pictures are bold black-line woodblock-style prints with flat areas of solid black and loose, sketchy fills, showing a boy hero, a giant peach, and fighting figures in simple compositions a designer could borrow for bold graphic storytelling and folk-tale motifs.

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