[絵本] 〔２６〕太閤記姉川大合戦上

沢久次郎編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 21 pictures

A late nineteenth-century Japanese ehon picture book published by Sawa Kyujiro in 1887, a printed woodblock-style volume of the Taiko-ki chronicle of the Battle of Anegawa. Its pages show mounted samurai in lacquered armour, banners and spears, with kana and kanji captions set in the margins, offering a designer dense, hard-edged graphic patterns of armour lamellae, crested helmets and dynamic cavalry action.

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