[絵本] 〔１〕冠の松真土の夜暴動後編上

武田交来編, 大蘇芳年画 · 1880 · 船津忠次郎 · 17 pictures

This is an 1880 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) with text by Takeda Kōrai and illustrations by Ōsō Yoshitoshi, published by Funatsu Chūjirō in Tokyo for a general readership. The woodblock-printed pages show samurai and townspeople in dynamic action scenes framed by columns of kana text, with bold black outlines and hatched shading. A designer could draw on the energetic figure poses, the dense text-and-image page layouts, and the strong contrast of solid black ink against white paper.

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