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牧金之助 編 · 1885 · 牧金之助 · 14 pictures

An 1885 Japanese picture book (ehon) volume four of the Taikoki, a woodblock-printed chronicle of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and published by Maki Kinnosuke. Its pages pair crisp black-line woodcut figures with vertical columns of kana text, showing samurai in armour, billowing robes and dynamic action poses. A designer could draw on the bold hatching, patterned textiles and tight figure-to-text layouts for graphic work with a historical Japanese flavour.

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