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絵本慶安太平記

1891 · 吉沢富太郎 · 10 pictures

An 1891 Japanese illustrated book (ehon), titled Ehon Keian Taiheiki, published by Yoshizawa Tomitarō, drawing on the Keian period history of rebellion and warriors. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints showing robed figures in dramatic poses, with swirling clouds, stylised foliage and rain, offering a designer ideas for dynamic figure compositions and cloud-and-storm motifs drawn from Meiji-era Japanese print traditions.

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