将門山古後所之図（収載資料名：[武者无類外ニ三枚続キ画帖]）

楊洲周延 · 1885 · 佐々木豊吉 · 3 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock print from 1885, made by the artist Yoshitoshi-school printmaker Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's contemporary Yōshū Chikanobu (楊洲周延) and published by Sasaki Toyokichi for a picture-book series of warrior subjects. The three pictures show dramatic scenes of samurai and supernatural encounters at night, with bats, swords, and flowering foliage. A designer might draw on their bold flat colour blocks, dense patterned textiles, and dramatic diagonal compositions of swordplay and moonlit gloom.

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