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絵本豊臣勲功記 第9編 巻之 1

桜沢堂山 編, 松川半山 画 · 1884 · 群玉堂[ほか] · 9 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book from 1884, compiled by Sakurazawa Dōzan and illustrated by Matsukawa Hanzan, published by Gungyokudō, telling the military exploits of Toyotomi Hideyoshi for a popular readership. Its woodblock-printed pages show battle scenes, samurai in armour, cliffside hauling of a boat, fortress walls and a formal portrait of Hideyoshi seated with a sword, with dense vertical calligraphic verse beside the figures that a designer could borrow for layout, framing and text-image pairing.

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