[絵本] 〔１２〕松前屋五郎兵衛伝

荒川藤兵衛編 · 1891 · 荒川藤兵衛 · 17 pictures

A late nineteenth-century Japanese ehon picture book, volume 12 of a series, compiled by Arakawa Tōbei and published by Arakawa in 1891 for popular readers, telling the story of Matsumaeya Gorobei in woodblock-style black-and-white line illustrations with dense vertical Japanese text columns. The pictures show samurai in dark kimono in interiors with shoji screens, tatami and lacquered trays, and a sword fight with a raised blade, offering a designer bold figure silhouettes, hatched patterned textiles, and strong graphic text-and-image panels.

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