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永島福太郎 編, 孟斎芳虎 画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 14 pictures

An 1880 Japanese ehon picture book published by Tsutsumi Kichibei, illustrated by Hōsai Yoshitora and compiled by Nagashima Fukutarō, telling a tale in Japanese woodblock style for a general readership. Its pages show a robed man on a rocky hillside, a seated figure beside a pine-screened building, and a kneeling young man with a sword against rooftops and flags, with dense vertical columns of calligraphy running alongside each scene. A designer might take the bold black-and-white brush contrast, the vertical text columns used as graphic texture, and the rhythm of framed scenes.

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