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大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 18 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Onishi Shonosuke and published in 1885 in Japan, aimed at general popular readers. Its woodblock-style pages show dense, action-filled combat scenes of samurai fighting with swords and staves, with the characters' calligraphic captions and columns of text set around the figures. A designer might take from them the energetic crowded composition, bold black-and-white hatching on patterned robes, and the way text and figures interlock across the page.

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