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岡本起泉 編 · 1882 · 金松堂 · 18 pictures

An 1882 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) published by Kinshodo, compiled by Okamoto Kisen, printed for a general reading public with its woodblock-style pictures set among columns of text. The pictures show seated and standing men and a woman in patterned kimono, with a folding screen, a bamboo blind and a hibachi brazier, drawn in dense black line with hand-lettered verse around them. A designer might take from them the economical hatching of striped and checked textiles and the way text columns are woven into the image.

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