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絵本通俗三国志 5編 巻之6

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 8 pictures

This is an illustrated Japanese picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, a volume of a popular adaptation of the Three Kingdoms romance, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style scenes of armoured warriors in battle, with arrows, spears and banners, and the calligraphic captions and dense crowd compositions offer a designer useful ideas for dynamic action layouts, rain-streaked backgrounds and ink-line hatching.

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