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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1891 · 堤吉兵衛 · 3 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book, published in 1891 by Tsutsumi Kichibei, a Japanese publisher, for a general readership. Its pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints showing a robed traveller with a staff and a conical hat in a snowy village, and a sword fight in dark woods, with a small sign and a folded fan-like object. A designer might take from them the bold contrast of black ink against white snow and the strong figure silhouettes in woodblock style.

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