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海戦画帖

若林欽 筆 · 1896 · 春陽堂 · 38 pictures

A Japanese picture book of naval battles, painted or drawn by Wakabayashi Kin and published by Shunyodo in 1896, meant for a general reading public. Its pictures are coarse, halftone-like prints of smoky sea battles with masted warships firing broadside, rendered in dense stipple and heavy smoke clouds that a designer could draw on for dramatic wartime compositions.

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