The Ogre’s Arm · Selected-page restoration study
Source sheet 9
Source sheet 9 corresponds to page 1 of the selected-page PDF. The source is proportionally resized for display; page numbering and layout differ.
Restoration demonstration · 1889
The Ogre’s Arm
Five illustrated spreads, with separately typeset text, reconstructed colour washes and rebuilt frames.
- Author
- Mrs. T. H. James, translator · Kobayashi Eitaku, illustrator
- Edition
- Kobunsha, 1889
- Language
- English
- Result
- Selected spreads · 5 PDF sheets / 10 original pages
Five source spreads represent ten original pages. AI-assisted image reconstruction retains uneven colour washes and pigment variation; text and framing remain separate elements. Some contours and faces still differ from the source.
Justified text follows the source’s line spacing; sections of the central frame on source spread 12 have been reconstructed.
The selection retains the printed typo “wsa” on source sheet 13. It also retains a mid-sentence opening and split wording where intervening sheets are outside the selection. These are selected spreads, not a complete retelling.
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The Ogre’s Arm · Selected-page restoration study
Source sheet 10
Source sheet 10 corresponds to page 2 of the selected-page PDF. The source is proportionally resized for display; page numbering and layout differ.
The Ogre’s Arm · Selected-page restoration study
Source sheet 12
Source sheet 12 corresponds to page 3 of the selected-page PDF. The source is proportionally resized for display; page numbering and layout differ.
The Ogre’s Arm · Selected-page restoration study
Source sheet 13
Source sheet 13 corresponds to page 4 of the selected-page PDF. The source is proportionally resized for display; page numbering and layout differ.
The Ogre’s Arm · Selected-page restoration study
Source sheet 14
Source sheet 14 corresponds to page 5 of the selected-page PDF. The source is proportionally resized for display; page numbering and layout differ.
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Selected pages
The Ogre’s Arm
Five illustrated spreads, with separately typeset text, reconstructed colour washes and rebuilt frames.
ogres-arm-selected-pages.pdf
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The historical edition
National Diet Library digital source · identifier 1919919. Mrs. T. H. James, translator · Kobayashi Eitaku, illustrator · Kobunsha, 1889. The supplied NDL scan and the newly reconstructed material are shown as a restoration study. No open license or universal public-domain status is assigned to this package; this is not a CC0 release.
What was checked
The source project checked the PDF export against canonical text, page bounds, source crops and final compositions. No independent second editorial proofread was performed; reconstructed detail is interpretive, not a facsimile.
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