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[絵本] 〔２〕 貞操鏡女房心得

安藤徳太郎 編, 豊原国周 画 · 1879 · 斎藤長吉 · 14 pictures

This Meiji-era Japanese picture book, issued in 1879 by the publisher Saitō Chōkichi, was compiled by Andō Tokutarō and illustrated by Toyohara Kunikuni for a general readership of ehon buyers. Its pages pair woodblock-printed figures of kimono-clad men and women with dense columns of Japanese text running around them, so a designer can see how kabuki-style actors are posed in tight, angular groupings against a busy printed field of characters, with the text itself acting as a dense textured background.

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