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橋本直義 編 · 1884 · 島鮮堂 · 7 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-printed ehon picture book from 1884, published by Shimasendō and edited by Hashimoto Naoyoshi, illustrating characters from the Chinese outlaw novel Water Margin for a general readership. The pages pair full-bleed black-and-white figure prints with vertical columns of Chinese-style text, showing bold, angular line work, dramatic stances and dense hatched patterns in clothing that a designer could adapt for graphic motifs and layout.

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