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[絵本] 〔３〕 川鵆天網船 ３編

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

This is an 1883 Japanese ehon picture book, volume 3 of the 川鵆天網船 series, compiled by Saika-en Ryūkō with illustrations by Umedō Kunimasa and supervised by Kanagaki Robun, published by Kinshōdō in Tokyo for a general reading public. Its pages pair woodblock figure drawings of men and women in kimono with dense columns of kana-rich Japanese text. A designer might take from them the tight interplay of black-and-white line figures and vertical text blocks, with simple hatched patterns on striped and checked robes.

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