絵本楠公記 10巻 [3]

山田得翁斎作, 速水春暁斎画 · 1800 · 田中吉兵衛[ほか6名] · 46 pictures

This is a ten-volume Japanese woodblock picture book, the Ehon Nanko-ki, written by Yamada Tokuo-sai and illustrated by Hayami Shungyo-sai, published in Edo-period Japan in 1800 by Tanaka Kichibei and partners for a general reading public. Its pages show a dense, clean black-line style with pine trees, tiled roofs, and crowded armoured warriors, so a designer could borrow its rhythmic patterning of scales, clouds and foliage, and its compositional habit of cutting scenes across flat ground and sky.

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