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[絵本] 〔1〕 冬楓月夕栄 2編

彩霞園柳香 編, 梅堂国政 画, 仮名垣魯文 閲 · 1883 · 金松堂 · 18 pictures

An 1883 Japanese ehon picture book published by Kinmatsudo, with illustrations by Umedō Kunimasa and text compiled by Saikaen Ryūkō and revised by Kanagaki Robun, made for popular readers in Tokyo. The pictures are woodblock-style line drawings of men in kimono and hakama in interiors with shoji screens, low tables, and handwritten columns of text, showing a designer how Meiji-era print compositions pair figures with calligraphic captions.

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