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竹柴金作 (琴作) 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1881 · 栄久堂 · 14 pictures

This Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book (ehon), published in 1881 by Eikyūdō, was compiled by Takeshiba Kinsaku with pictures by Umedō Kunimasa, and it tells a ghost-cat tale in woodblock prints. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock scenes of figures in kimono beside fences and screens, with columns of Japanese text running through the frames. A designer could take from them the compact layout of image panels set against dense vertical text, and the patterned kimono textures.

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