Abstract
Now, the Costume Image database in modern Japan is under construction by using a still picture as a data source. This paper aims at the data evaluation of the newspaper serial novel illustration of Meiji Era which is one of the data sources. The target age is from the second half of the 1880s to the end of the 1890s. The advantages and important points which use a serial story with the style "Etoki-explanation by illustration" of Kusazoshi of the Edo era are described.
