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芳年武者无類 武蔵坊弁慶・九郎判官源義経（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 Japanese woodblock print from Yoshitoshi's 1885 album of warriors, published by Kobayashi Tetsujiro, showing the warrior-monk Benkei and Minamoto no Yoshitsune in a Meiji-era ehon picture book. The print is a vivid, flat-colour scene of armoured figures beneath blossoming cherry branches, and a designer might take its bold red and grey armour contrasts, dense patterned costume, and cherry-tree framing as ready reference for historical Japanese graphic composition.

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