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清水市次郎 編 · 1883 · 清水市次郎 · 5 pictures

An 1883 Japanese picture book (ehon) edited by Shimizu Ichijirō and published by Shimizu Ichijirō, illustrating the Journey to the West for a general readership. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style scenes of monkey king battles, hellfire, and sea fights with dragons, drawn with dense hatching and bold flame and water patterns that a designer could draw on for dramatic line work and fire or wave motifs.

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