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沢久次郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 12 pictures

An 1887 Japanese picture book (ehon) titled Shiraishi Banashi, compiled by Sawa Kyujiro and published by him, presumably for general readers of the period. Its pictures are simple black-and-white woodblock-style line drawings with brief columns of hiragana text beside the figures, showing samurai, a seated woman, and a kimono-clad woman in a window or street scene, with dense patterned kimono and calligraphic text that a designer might borrow for period-style layouts and figure silhouettes.

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