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柳水亭種清 編 · 1882 · 小林鉄次郎 · 30 pictures

This is a Meiji-era (1882) Japanese picture book, an ehon published by Kobayashi Tetsujirō and compiled by Ryūsuitei Tanesei, printed as woodblock-style text pages with interleaved illustrations of kimono-clad figures. Its pictures show seated and kneeling figures in patterned robes beside dense columns of vertical Japanese script, offering a designer close-up examples of black-line brush drawing, checked and diagonal textile patterns, and text-and-image page layouts.

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