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[絵本] 〔4〕 冬楓月夕栄 初編

彩霞園柳香 編, 梅堂国政 画, 仮名垣魯文 閲 · 1883 · 金松堂 · 20 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) from 1883, published by Kinshōdō, with illustrations by Umedō Kunimasa and text edited by Kanagaki Robun, made for a general reading public. The woodblock pictures show kabuki-style figures in rooms and on a rain-streaked veranda, with dense columns of kana text beside them, offering a designer strong examples of bold black line, hatched patterning and tightly integrated text and image.

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