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牧金之助 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1888 · 金寿堂 · 5 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) of 1888, published by Kinjudō, with text compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and illustrations by Umedō Kunimasa, telling a samurai revenge story in woodblock-printed pages for a popular readership. The pictures show armoured and robed swordsmen in interiors and outdoors, set against bold black silhouettes, dense vertical text columns, and sunrise backgrounds, offering a designer examples of strong figure-ground contrast and text-image layout in Japanese print.

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