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沢久次郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 12 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) published in 1887 by Sawa Kyujiro, a Tokyo-area publisher, for general popular readership. Its pictures show samurai-period figures in kimono and hakama posed mid-action with swords, poles, and staffs, framed by vertical hatched fences and set against plain grounds, with columns of kana text running down the margins. A designer might take from them the bold outline drawing, the dynamic poses, and the sparse use of black line against white space.

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