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天狗の大よせ : 素人浄瑠璃 初篇

木葉散人 編, 団卒堂主人 閲 · 1889 · 岡本書房 · 1 picture

An 1889 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) published by Okamoto Shobō, compiled by Kiyō Sanjin and reviewed by Danso Shujin, with woodblock-style pictures for amateur joruri chanting. The double-page spread shows crowded tengu-like figures and men in a dense, energetic scene with diagonal poles and sticks, so a designer can take its tight crowd composition and bold hatched black-and-white linework as a model for dynamic group action.

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