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永島辰五郎 編 · 1882 · 小森宗次郎 · 16 pictures

A Meiji-era (1882) Japanese picture book, an ehon volume compiled by Nagashima Tatsugorō and published by Komori Sōjirō, offering woodblock-printed scenes of everyday life with columns of calligraphic text. The pictures show women and men in kimono in domestic and street settings, with figures drawn in fluid black outline and little shading. A designer might take from them the economical linework, bold black-and-white figure silhouettes, and the way text columns frame the images on the page.

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