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[絵本] 〔３〕 霜夜鐘十字辻筮 ２編下

武田交来 編, 大蘇芳年 画 · 1880 · 船津忠次郎 · 13 pictures

A Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) of 1880, compiled by Takeda Koraiu and illustrated by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, published by Funatsu Tadajiro in Tokyo for general readers of popular fiction. Its woodblock pages pair dramatic scenes of a robed man wielding a sword or fighting among bamboo and rocks with dense columns of printed Japanese text, showing a designer how a figure can sit within a crowded text layout and how bold black-and-white line work builds motion.

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