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絵本通俗三国志 6編 巻之1

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 6 pictures

An 1860s-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei, adapting the Chinese Romance of the Three Kingdoms for a general popular readership. Its pages show dynamic battle scenes with horsemen, spears and armoured warriors, plus an interior tableau and a dense table of contents framed by floral borders. A designer might take the energetic diagonal compositions, the crowded multi-figure action and the bold black-and-white line work with stylised cloud and smoke shapes.

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