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芳年武者无類 新中納言平知盛（収載資料名：[武者无類外ニ三枚続キ画帖]）

芳年 · 1885 · 小林鉄次郎 · 1 picture

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock print from 1885 by the artist Yoshitoshi, published by Kobayashi Tetsujiro, in the ehon picture-book tradition aimed at a general Japanese audience. The single plate shows a samurai in layered red and grey lacquered armour, standing on a red-floored veranda beside a gold-patterned screen, with a sweeping trailing robe and a dramatic purple sky behind; a designer might take its strong red and black palette, flat decorative panels, and framing of a warrior against a bold interior.

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