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児玉又七 編 · 1880 · 大橋堂 · 14 pictures

An 1880 Japanese ehon picture book published by Ōhashidō and compiled by Kodama Mataichi, presenting the life of the warrior Tametomo in woodblock-printed pages with kana-and-kanji captions. The pictures show bold, simplified warrior figures with dense patterned robes, rocky seascapes, and pine branches, offering a designer strong examples of graphic black-line composition, decorative textile pattern, and vertical text placed beside images.

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