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松林伯円 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1880 · 松延堂 · 18 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Shoendo, with text by Matsubayashi Hakuen and illustrations by Umedo Kunimasa, likely aimed at general readers of popular storytelling. The four pictures show a man in a patterned kimono and hakama at a gate, a street of tiled-roof houses with walkers, a harbour view with boats and distant hills labelled with place names, and a woman in a patterned kimono beside a seated man at a table. Designers could draw on the dense ink linework, floral cloud-and-roundel backgrounds, and the bold contrast of black outlines against plain white areas.

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