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日露海戦画帖 第1集

若林欽 画 · 1906 · 春陽堂 · 9 pictures

A Japanese picture album of the Russo-Japanese War naval battles, drawn by Wakabayashi Kin and published by Shunyodo in 1906 as the first volume of a series. The pictures show warships at sea under smoke, searchlight beams and star shells, with rough, dramatic tonal shading a designer could use for wartime maritime scenes.

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