[絵本] 〔３〕高橋阿伝夜叉譚５編下

仮名垣魯文 (猫々道人) 編 · 1880 · 金松堂 · 18 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Kanagaki Robun under the name Neko Neko Dojin, published in 1880 by Kinmatsudō, for a popular readership. Its woodblock pages pair dense columns of vertical kana text with figures in crime-story scenes, including a struggle on the ground, a seated man at a counter beside shop signs, a boat with a poling figure, and a man in a doorway holding a small child. A designer might take the compact composition of text blocks around figures, the bold black-and-white patterned kimono textures, and the staged poses of late Edo-style print traditions.

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