[絵本] 〔４〕鏡山誉勇婦下

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

This is a Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) from 1883, compiled by Takeuchi Eiku and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, published by Sekine Kōsuke in Japan for a general reading audience. Its woodblock-style pages show seated women in patterned kimono with dense vertical columns of Japanese text running beside them, giving a designer strong examples of kimono pattern work, interior screens, and calligraphic 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