[絵本] 〔１４〕義経一代記

児玉又七編 · 1880 · 大橋堂 · 15 pictures

This Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book, titled Yoshitsune Ichidai-ki and compiled by Kodama Matashichi in 1880 for Osaka's Ōhashidō publisher, retells the life of the warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune in woodblock-printed pages framed by dense columns of kana text. The pictures are bold, high-contrast black-and-white block prints with heavily patterned armour, rough hatching, and lettering set into the compositions, offering a designer ideas about dramatic samurai silhouettes, dynamic diagonal action, and text-and-image layouts.

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