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芳年武者无類 源三位頼政（収載資料名：[武者无類外ニ三枚続キ画帖]）

芳年 · 1886 · 小林鉄次郎 · 1 picture

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock print from 1886 by the artist Yoshitoshi, published by Kobayashi Tetsujirō, belonging to the ehon picture-book tradition and drawn for a general Japanese readership. The print shows a seated warrior in a purple hood beside a tree on a grassy slope, with armour pieces and a sword laid out in the foreground, and a red banner at upper right. A designer could take from it the strong diagonal composition, the flat layered colour blocks of purple, grey and red, and the way a vertical title cartouche is set into the image.

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