[絵本] 〔２〕釣天井宇都宮奇談初編

永島辰五郎編 · 1882 · 小森宗次郎 · 20 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon), compiled by Nagashima Tatsugoro and published in 1882 by Komori Sogojiro, telling a tale of the Utsunomiya trap-ceiling incident. Its pages pair dense columns of kana text with boxed scenes of seated samurai in patterned robes, rendered in bold black line against open white ground. A designer might draw on the strong figure silhouettes, the framed text panels, and the compact interplay of calligraphic lines with picture spaces.

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