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荒川吉五郎編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 17 pictures

A Meiji-era (1882) Japanese picture book (ehon) edited by Arakawa Kichigoro, published by Arakawa Kichigoro, presenting the later life story of the warrior Kusunoki Masashige in woodblock-printed pages. The pictures show armoured samurai in black-and-white block print, each framed by dense columns of Japanese text in vertical lines. A designer might take from them the bold contrast of solid black armour and hatched textures against open paper, and the way figures sit beside running calligraphy as a compositional device.

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