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絵本通俗三国志 初編上

1883 · 著作館 · 18 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock-style picture book, Ehon Tsuzoku Sangokushi, first volume, published in 1883 in Tokyo by Chosakukan, retelling the Chinese Three Kingdoms romance for a general Japanese readership. Its black-and-white plates show warriors on horseback, dramatic battle scenes and framed portrait tableaux with vertical cartouche labels, offering a designer bold figure silhouettes, dense ink-line hatching and framed label compositions.

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