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岡田玉山 著 · 1886 · 成文社 · 36 pictures

An 1886 Japanese woodblock-style picture book, the second volume of the Ehon Taikōki, written and illustrated by Okada Gyokuzan and published by Seibunsha for a general readership. Its black-and-white line illustrations show armoured warriors in battle and seated commanders in tiled interiors, with vertical columns of kanji captions framed in the margins; a designer could borrow their bold hatched armour patterns, dense ink-line crowding, and the scattered diamond-shaped 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