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荒川吉五郎編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 16 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) compiled by Arakawa Kichigorō and published by him in 1882, presenting the life of the warrior Kusunoki Masashige in printed Japanese text with illustrations. The pages show a seated courtier with a fan, armoured warriors with helmets, and a mounted rider in dark armour, with dense columns of kana text framing each image. A designer might take the bold black-and-white woodcut line work, the dense vertical text blocks, and the stylised armour patterns as models for graphic composition.

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