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絵本石山軍記

1891 · 競争屋 · 29 pictures

An 1891 Japanese ehon picture book printed by Kyōsōya, a woodblock-style illustrated account of the Ishiyama war chronicle, aimed at general readers. Its pages show armoured samurai in dense ink line, with framing screens, tatami floors, and calligraphic captions in columns beside the figures. A designer could draw on the bold armour patterns, the cropped interior compositions, and the vertical caption blocks for stylised historical graphics.

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