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清水市次郎 和解 · 1884 · 清水市次郎 · 16 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-style picture book, a popular illustrated adaptation of the Three Kingdoms romance, published in Tokyo in 1884 by Shimizu Ichijirō and aimed at general readers. Its pictures are bold black-and-white line drawings with dense crowds, patterned floors and balustrades, and dramatic gestures, offering a designer strong examples of graphic compositions built from energetic outlines, pattern fills, and cropped action scenes.

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