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斎藤長八 編 · 1887 · 斎藤長八 · 16 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) compiled by Saitō Chōhachi and published in Tokyo in 1887, with its title and captions in Japanese. Its pictures show armoured warriors and crowded street scenes drawn in bold, simplified black outlines with dense hatched patterning, suggesting a strong graphic model for designers working with ornamental pattern, crowd composition, and heavy-line folk print style.

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