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南総里見八犬伝 四

滝沢馬琴 著, 笹川種郎 校訂 · 1930 · 博文館 · 61 pictures

This is a 1930 Japanese edition of Takizawa Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, volume four, published by Hakubunkan, with the text revised by Sasagawa Taneo, a reprint of a nineteenth-century illustrated novel for general readers. Its woodblock-style line drawings show crowded scenes of warriors, monks and mountain journeys, with dense hatching in trees and rocks, clustered figures in robes, and ink-line compositions a designer could borrow for layered, narrative panel layouts.

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