[絵本] 〔１〕籬の菊操鏡２編下

京文舎文京 (渡辺義方) 編, 守川周重画 · 1880 · 青盛堂 · 17 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Seiseidō, with text compiled by Kyōbunsha Bunkyō (Watanabe Yoshikata) and illustrations by Morikawa Chikashige. The woodblock-printed pages mix columns of Japanese text with small scenes of interior life, mostly women in rooms with shoji screens. A designer might take from them the dense, cramped layout of text and figures, the patterned kimono motifs, and the stiff, sharply outlined figure poses of late Edo-style print work.

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