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絵本呉越軍談 3編 8

池田東籬 著, 柳川重信 画 · 1882 · 井上治兵衛 · 3 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from 1882, published by Inoue Jihei, with text by Ikeda Tori and illustrations by Yanagawa Shigenobu, made for general readers of popular war tales. Its pages show black-line scenes of armoured warriors, mountain landscapes and palace interiors, with vertical Japanese captions beside them, offering a designer clean linework, dense hatching and strong figure silhouettes to adapt.

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