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柳水亭種清編 · 1882 · 小林鉄次郎 · 22 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1882 by Kobayashi Tetsujirō, compiled by Ryūsuitei Tanesei, illustrating scenes from the kabuki drama Yoshitsune Senbonzakura. Its woodblock-printed pages pair full-page actor portraits and dramatic stage scenes with columns of Japanese text, offering a designer examples of bold black-line composition, tightly packed page layouts, and kimono patterning drawn from kabuki costume.

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