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絵本真田三代記

1887 · 鈴木源四郎 · 31 pictures

An 1887 Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) published by Suzuki Genshirō, retelling the Sanada family's three generations of warfare in Japan's Sengoku period. The pictures show armoured samurai, a courtier in layered robes, and a seated figure in a veranda interior, all in clean black linework on white with added printed text in columns beside the figures. A designer could borrow its compact figure poses, bold outlines, and vertical caption panels as a reference for historical Japanese illustration.

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