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中村浅吉 編 · 1889 · 中村浅吉 · 8 pictures

A late nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon), compiled by Nakamura Asakichi and published in 1889, presenting the warrior Kusunoki Masashige in episodes for a general reading public. The pages show armoured samurai in dense battle scenes with banners, arrows and spears, drawn in bold black outlines with hatched textures and vertical columns of Japanese text, offering a designer strong models for patterned armour, dynamic diagonal composition and graphic use of calligraphic panels.

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