[絵本] 〔８〕岩見重太郎一代記

竹内栄久編, 梅堂国政画 · 1884 · 小森宗次郎 · 23 pictures

An 1884 Japanese ehon picture book, volume 8 of the Iwami Juutarou life story, compiled by Takeuchi Eiku and illustrated by Umedo Kunimasa and published by Komori Sojiro for a popular readership. Its woodblock-style pages show a samurai hero in dynamic fighting poses, with dense columns of vertical Japanese text running beside the scenes, offering a designer strong examples of bold black silhouettes, patterned kimono and hakama, and text-and-image page 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