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芳年武者无類 仁田四郎忠常（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 woodblock print from 1886 by Yoshitoshi, published by Kobayashi Tetsujirō, a single sheet in a series of warrior pictures for Japanese collectors and readers of picture books. The image shows a samurai in a patterned blue-green kimono and dark hakama with a sword at his waist, facing a fiery red explosion and a dark cliff while bats fly overhead, with a cartouche of calligraphy at the top; a designer might take its bold contrast of flaming red and night blue, and its dramatic diagonal 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