[絵本] 〔２〕菊重延命嚢初編下

久保田彦作編, 梅堂国政画 · 1879 · 大倉孫兵衛 · 19 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) of 1879, compiled by Kubota Hikosaku and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, published in Tokyo by Ōkura Magobee for general readers. Its woodblock-printed pages pair full-figure scenes of townspeople and interiors with dense columns of vertical Japanese text, with the text often woven around the figures. A designer might take the lively framing of figures against annotated panels, the patterned kimono textiles, and the compact spatial layouts of rooms with screens and low tables.

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