[明治役者絵版画帖]

1900 · [出版者不明] · 39 pictures

This is a Meiji-period Japanese album of kabuki actor prints, published around 1900 with the publisher unidentified, presumably for a popular audience of theatre fans. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style double-page portraits of actors in costume and dramatic poses, with bold solid blacks, white outlines and stylised patterns that a designer could draw on for graphic contrast, kimono patterning and expressive figure poses.

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