[絵本] 〔１４〕曽我復讐

竹内栄久編, 梅堂国政画 · 1884 · 小森宗次郎 · 17 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon, volume 14) compiled by Takeuchi Eiku and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, published in 1884 by Komori Sōjirō in Japan for a popular readership. Its woodblock-printed pages pair dense columns of kana text with full-width scenes of samurai combat, a lone warrior in a cloak, and interior court-like confrontations, which a designer could use as examples of bold black-and-white brush-line composition and vertical text layout.

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