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竹内栄久編, 梅堂国政画 · 1883 · 関根孝助 · 17 pictures

An 1883 Japanese ehon picture book, volume 3 of the Mokuya Mura Rokusuke heroic tale, compiled by Takeuchi Eiku, illustrated by Umedo Kunimasa and published by Sekine Kosuke in Tokyo for popular readers. Its woodblock pages pair a small figure drawing with dense columns of kana-printed text running down the margins, with some images showing a samurai in formal dress, a sword duel in a courtyard, a pine-backed fence scene, and a woman with a basket. A designer could take the bold black linework, the strong figure silhouettes against open white ground, and the tight interplay of calligraphic text blocks and small framed scenes as a reference for graphic 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