[絵本] 〔２〕金花胡蝶幻２編下

京文舎文京 (渡辺義方) 編, 守川周重画 · 1880 · 青盛堂 · 19 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Seiseido, with text by Kyobunsha Bunkyo (Watanabe Yoshimasa) and illustrations by Morikawa Chikashige, printed for a popular readership. The four pictures are woodblock-style scenes of indoor life with a figure in patterned kimono, a seated man at a low table, a man on a raised platform beside a bamboo plant, and a crouching man with food and tableware, each framed by columns of vertical Japanese text. A designer could take from them the dense interplay of printed kana columns with compact figure groups, and the striped and patterned textile motifs.

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