[絵本] 〔２〕金花胡蝶幻３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 an 1880 Japanese illustrated fiction volume (ehon) published by Seiseidō, with text compiled by Kyōbunsha Bunkyō (Watanabe Yoshikata) and pictures drawn by Morikawa Chikashige, aimed at general readers of popular fiction. Its woodblock-printed pages mix small kimono-clad figures in interiors with dense columns of vertical text, showing Meiji-era popular print composition: figures placed beside calligraphic captions, with a designer able to borrow the layered, text-framed page layouts and the crisp black-line figure 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