[絵本] 〔４〕佐野八ツ橋吉原百人切上

山村清助編 · 1885 · 堤吉兵衛 · 20 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Yamamura Seisuke and published by Tsutsumi Kichibei in 1885, apparently aimed at general readers of popular fiction. Its pages are woodblock prints with a stylised figure in a patterned kimono set beside short columns of Japanese text, and the figures are drawn in bold black outline with flat, sparse shading. A designer could draw on the strong graphic contrast between dense hatched cloth patterns and open white ground, and on the compact layout of image and calligraphic text on a single page.

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