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中村浅吉編 · 1889 · 中村浅吉 · 16 pictures

An 1889 Japanese ehon picture book titled Meiga Karasu Monogatari, compiled by Nakamura Asakichi and published by Nakamura himself, a popular illustrated book of the Meiji period. Its pictures show woodblock-printed figures in patterned kimono beside columns of vertical Japanese text, with lattice, checkerboard and floral textile patterns a designer could draw on for surface pattern.

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