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絵本報讐録 3巻

玉亭子 作, 歌川豊国 画 · 1801 · 18 pictures

This Edo-period Japanese picture book in three volumes was written by Tamatei Shi and illustrated by Utagawa Toyokuni, published in 1801 for a popular readership. Its woodblock-printed double-page spreads show samurai, household interiors and garden scenes framed by columns of calligraphic text, offering a designer compact examples of Edo line drawing, pictorial page layout and text-image integration.

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