[絵本] 〔２〕新編伊香保土産４編下

松林伯円編, 梅堂国政画 · 1880 · 松延堂 · 15 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Matsubaya-dō, compiled by Matsubayashi Hakuen and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, aimed at general popular readers. The woodblock-printed pages pair full-page scenes with columns of kana text, and the scenes show a woman in a patterned kimono, a man in checked robes wrestling a figure, two samurai in a forest, and an interior with seated figures. A designer might take the dense, bold linework, the patterned textile motifs, and the compositions that fill the page with figures against sparse ground.

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