[絵本] 〔２〕櫓太鼓成田仇討上

梅堂国政画 · 1885 · 松栄堂 · 17 pictures

A Meiji-era (1885) Japanese picture book, an ehon illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa and published by Shōeidō, drawing on the samurai revenge story of the Narita vendetta. Its woodblock-printed pages pair dense columns of Japanese text with full-figure scenes of samurai, a kneeling woman, and a bald retainer in kimono. A designer might take its bold black silhouettes, patterned kimono textiles, and tightly packed text-and-image layouts as a model for compact narrative 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