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児玉又七編 · 1880 · 大橋堂 · 20 pictures

An 1880 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) titled Kiyomasa Ichidaiki, compiled by Kodama Mata-shichi and published by Ōhashidō, telling the life story of the warlord Katō Kiyomasa in a popular woodblock-style format. The pages show mounted and armed samurai in dense black-and-white woodcut line work set beside columns of Japanese text, with bold silhouettes of horses, armour and bamboo that a designer could use for strong graphic contrast and bold ink linework.

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