[絵本] 〔３〕仮名手本忠臣蔵２号

永島福太郎編, 孟斎芳虎画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 15 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from 1880, published by Tsutsumi Kichibei, with pictures by Gekkyōsai Yoshitora and text compiled by Nagashima Fukutarō, made for popular readers. Its pages show samurai in combat and confrontation, drawn with bold black outlines, dense patterned kimono textures, and calligraphic columns of text beside the figures, which a designer could take as models for dramatic figure poses and for integrating script with image.

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