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絵本通俗三国志 6編 巻之6

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 8 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei, retelling the Three Kingdoms story for a popular readership. Its pictures are black-and-white line prints with bold stylized clouds, rushing water, cliffs and small figures in landscape, offering a designer a clear model for graphic cloud and wave patterns and dense ink-line composition.

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