[絵本] 〔１〕金竜山浅草寺聖観世音略縁起上

竹内栄久編, 梅堂国政画 · 1883 · 関根孝助 · 21 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) printed in 1883 by publisher Sekine Kōsuke, compiled by Takeuchi Eiku and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, presenting the origin legend of the Asakusa Kannon temple for a general readership. The woodblock-style line drawings show a figure carrying a basket and two children along a riverbank, a man with a staff and attendant on a paved path, an archer in armour firing from a boat, and a pine tree above reeds by water, with dense columns of Japanese text set into the scenes, offering a designer clear examples of compact, text-integrated vignette layouts and bold black-and-white line work.

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