[絵本] 〔１〕水錦隅田曙３編中

伊東専三編, 梅堂国政画 · 1879 · 金松堂 · 21 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1879 by Kinshōdō, with text compiled by Itō Senzō and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, aimed at popular readers. The four woodblock-style pages show seated and standing figures in patterned kimono amid dense columns of Japanese text, with a lantern, a tree branch, and a folding screen. A designer could take the tightly packed vertical text blocks and the richly patterned textile fills as models for dense, layered surface decoration.

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