[絵本] 〔２〕金花胡蝶幻２編中

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, aimed at general readers of popular fiction. Its woodblock-printed pages set small columns of kana-and-kanji text around framed scenes of kimono-clad figures indoors, in a tight, dense black-and-white line style a designer might borrow for compositions that pair dense text blocks with 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