[絵本] 〔１〕笠松峠鬼神お松物語下

永島辰五郎編, 孟斎芳虎画 · 1881 · 宮田孝助 · 19 pictures

An 1881 Japanese ehon picture book (Kasamatsu-toge Kijin Omatsu monogatari, vol. 2) compiled by Nagashima Tatsugorō and illustrated by Gessai Yoshitora, published by Miyata Kōsuke for general readers of popular woodblock fiction. Its pages show armoured warriors with swords in dynamic poses, with calligraphic text columns filling the margins, offering a designer strong examples of bold black-and-white woodcut figure work and dense vertical Japanese lettering as graphic texture.

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