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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1888 · 堤吉兵衛 · 3 pictures

An 1888 Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Tsutsumi Kichibei, published by the same Tsutsumi Kichibei, presumably for general readers of the period. Its pages show woodblock-style black and white scenes in a restrained, stylised manner, with a figure in a dark kimono kneeling before shoji screens, a woman in an elaborate hairstyle beside a sliding door, and a title board set against a pine trunk; a designer might take its dense, high-contrast line work and its use of text panels beside the images as a model for bold graphic layout.

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