[絵本] 〔３〕花岡奇縁譚初編上

岡本起泉 (勘造) 編, 芳川春濤閲 · 1882 · 島鮮堂 · 16 pictures

This is a Japanese illustrated fiction volume, an ehon picture book titled in kana and kanji, edited by Okamoto Kisen with Yoshikawa Shunto as reviewer, published in Tokyo in 1882 by Shisendō for general readers of the Meiji period. The pages show a woodblock-style black and white line art with dense columns of vertical Japanese text beside each scene, and a designer might take from them the economical hatched linework, framed interior views of rooms with screens and hanging cords, and the placement of text blocks around figures.

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