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口木山人, 岳亭丘山 訳 · 1883 · 法木書屋 · 14 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) from 1883, published by Hōkisho-ya and adapted from the Chinese novel Journey to the West, with text by Kōboku Sanjin and translation credited to Gakutei Kyūzan. The woodblock-style black-and-white pages show fighting figures against stylised mountains, clouds and water, offering a designer examples of bold line work, dense hatching and dynamic action compositions drawn from East Asian print tradition.

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