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絵本通俗三国志 7編 巻之7

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 8 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei, adapting the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for a popular readership. The pictures are black-and-white line prints with dense hatching, showing architecture, a mountain-and-water landscape with boats, and a fighting scene with mounted warriors. A designer might take the bold ink contrast, the sweeping rock and wave textures, and the compact pine-framed compositions as models for graphic work.

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