[絵本] 〔６〕碁太平記白石話宮城の信夫下

竹内栄久編, 梅堂国政画 · 1883 · 関根孝助 · 20 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) issued in 1883 by the publisher Sekine Kōsuke, with woodblock-style illustrations by Umedō Kunimasa and text compiled by Takeuchi Eiku, aimed at popular readers. Its pages show kimono-clad women seated in interiors, a figure in a snowy garden beside a tree and fence, a woman under a willow by a small building, and a seated man in formal dress with hakama, with dense columns of Japanese text beside each image. A designer could draw on the bold black linework, patterned kimono textiles, and tightly packed vertical text blocks as a strong graphic model for layout and pattern.

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