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絵本通俗三国志 5編 巻之2

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 6 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei, showing scenes from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for a popular readership. The pictures are black-and-white line prints with dense ink hatching, showing figures in interiors, a stone-walled garden, a stone arch bridge over water, and a boat on a river. A designer might take their clean contour lines, patterned rock and water textures, and compact framing of narrative scenes across facing pages.

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