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牧金之助 編 · 1890 · 牧金之助 · 5 pictures

A Meiji-period Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and published by him in 1890, drawn for general readers and drawn from the Satomi Hakkenden adventure tale. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints of samurai in interiors and outdoor scenes, with crowded, dynamic groupings of tumbling attackers, flowing smoke, and patterned kimono textures that a designer could take as models for bold figure composition and graphic patterning.

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