[絵本] 〔２〕菊重延命嚢５編下

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

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1879 by Okura Magobei, compiled by Kubota Hikosaku and illustrated by Umedo Kunimasa, aimed at general readers of popular woodblock fiction. Its pages pair crisp black-line woodblock figures of seated men and women in patterned kimono with dense columns of Japanese text, and a designer could take their strong contour lines, dense patterned textiles, and tightly framed interior scenes as models for bold graphic layouts.

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