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安藤徳太郎 編, 豊原国周 画 · 1879 · 斎藤長吉 · 13 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) from 1879, published by Saito Chokichi, with text compiled by Ando Tokutaro and illustrations by Toyohara Kunikuni. Its woodblock prints show figures in interiors and gardens with columns of printed Japanese script beside them, offering a designer compact examples of figure poses, indoor settings and vertical text layouts from Japanese popular illustration.

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