[絵本] 〔２〕日本名将銘々伝４

荒川吉五郎編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 17 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) of 1882, compiled by Arakawa Kichigorō and published by him, presenting famous Japanese warriors for a general popular readership. Each page pairs a full-length figure of a samurai or courtier with a column of Japanese text beside the portrait, the figures drawn in bold black outline with patterned robes and armour. A designer might take the crisp, heavy linework, dense patterned textiles on the costumes, and the vertical text columns as a layout model.

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