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[絵本] 〔４〕 赤穂義士銘々伝

1890 · 井上市松 · 12 pictures

An 1890 Japanese ehon picture book published by Inoue Ichimatsu, one volume of a set of individual portraits of the Ako loyal retainers, the samurai who avenged their lord, printed for a popular readership. The four pictures are woodblock-style black-and-white scenes of armoured swordsmen in dramatic poses, each framed by columns of Japanese text. A designer might take the bold hatched patterns of kimono and snow, the strong black silhouettes, and the way text and figures share one page.

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