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久保田彦作 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1879 · 大倉孫兵衛 · 18 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon, volume 2, part 3 of the Kikushige Enmei-bukuro), compiled by Kubota Hikosaku and illustrated by Umedo Kunimasa, published in 1879 by Okura Magobei in Tokyo for general readers. Its woodblock-printed pages put figures in kimono in interior scenes beside dense columns of Japanese kana text, with bold black outlines and patterned textiles a designer could draw on for pattern, line and text-image layout.

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