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泉竜亭是正 著, 守川周重 画 · 1880 · 荒川藤兵衛 · 19 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Arakawa Tōbei, with text by Izumi Ryūtei Zekisei and illustrations by Morikawa Chikashige, aimed at general urban readers. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock prints with dense columns of kana text beside the figures, showing indoor scenes of seated men, a struggle, and a woman in patterned kimono, which a designer might take as models for lively linework, patterned textiles, and the tight integration of text and image.

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