[絵本] 〔２〕徳川軍記

森本順三郎著 · 1888 · 森本順三郎 · 18 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) from 1888, published by Morimoto Junzaburo, illustrating warriors from the Tokugawa military chronicles for a general readership. The pictures show armoured samurai in dynamic poses, with bold black outlines, dense hatching on armour and dress, and vertical columns of Japanese text beside the figures, offering a designer strong graphic patterns of line, armour texture and framed text blocks.

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