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[絵本] 〔２〕 日本名将銘々伝 ２

荒川吉五郎 編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 14 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1882 by Arakawa Kichigoro, compiled as a volume of portraits of famous Japanese warriors for a general readership. Each woodblock-style print shows a seated or kneeling samurai in patterned robes beside a column of vertical kana text giving his name and biography. A designer might take the bold black hats, dense patterned kimono textiles, and tightly packed vertical text blocks as a compact model for portrait layouts with captions.

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