“与那些有很强的教育意义、很强的认知功能的书籍相比,绘本带给孩子的,更多的是情感上的滋养,是快乐的阅读经验,是非常感性的美的体验。”同为东方国家,又作为六七十年代开始普及并发展绘本的绘本新国,日本绘本的感性特点特别值得玩味。石川介绍,日本绘本的发展背景,要追溯至明治甚至更早的江户时代。当时的日本,读书成为全民风潮,即使经济条件不好的百姓也非常热爱读书。到了大正时代,很多有当代感觉的儿童期刊开始出现,也代表了日本当时极为先进的出版水平。到了昭和时代的 “Compared with those books that have strong educational significance and strong cognitive function, the picture books bring children more emotional nourishment, which is a happy reading experience and a very sensual beautiful experience. ”The same as the eastern countries, but also as the beginning of the sixties and seventies universal popularization and development of the picture book of the new country, Japan’s emotional characteristics of the picture book particularly worth pondering. Ishikawa introduction, the development of Japanese pictorial background, dating back to the Meiji or even earlier Edo period. At that time, reading in Japan became popular among the general public. Even people with poor economic conditions loved reading. By the time of the Taisho era, many children’s journals with contemporary feelings began to appear, and they also represented Japan’s extremely advanced publishing level at that time. To the era of the Showa era