Tale of Eight Dogs (Hakkenden) : [volume 2]
A volume two of the Tale of Eight Dogs (Hakkenden), a Japanese woodblock-printed illustrated novel by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, published in Edo in 1853 by Chōjiya Heibei. The pages are dense with columns of vertical kana text, with pictures of seated and kneeling figures in patterned robes set into the text blocks. A designer could draw on the layered patterned kimono textiles, the staged interior compositions, and the way the text and image share each spread.
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