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絵本曽我物語 第4編上

一咲居士 編 · 1884 · 斯文堂 · 5 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Issaku Koji and published by Shibundō in 1884, retelling the Soga Monogatari war tale for popular readers. Its woodblock-style line illustrations show samurai in armour, a monstrous beast attack, and courtly interiors with tables of food, offering a designer strong examples of bold black outline, dynamic figure grouping, and inset captioned title panels.

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