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児玉弥七編 · 1884 · 大橋堂 · 16 pictures

An 1884 Japanese ehon picture book, Miyamoto Buyūden volume 3, compiled by Kodama Yashichi and published by Ōhashidō in Japan, aimed at popular readers. Its woodblock-style pages show a samurai in armour with a drawn sword, a fighter wrestling a bald opponent, and a ground-level fight beside a stream, all framed by vertical columns of kana text. A designer might take the bold black silhouettes, dense patterned armour, and dynamic diagonal action poses.

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