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大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 17 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) published in 1885 by Shōnosuke Ōnishi, a Japanese publisher, telling a revenge story in narrative panels with columns of handwritten-style text beside the images. Its pages show a samurai in a patterned kimono and striped hakama standing with a long sword, a swordfight among armoured men, a seated figure at a low table, and a scene with a box and an onlooker, all in bold black linework. A designer might take its compact panel layouts, dense vertical text columns, and high-contrast line-only figures as a reference for graphic narrative and traditional Japanese print composition.

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