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荒川藤兵衛 編 · 1891 · 荒川藤兵衛 · 5 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Arakawa Tōbei and published in 1891 in Japan, aimed at general readers. The pictures are woodblock-style black-and-white prints of samurai action scenes, with figures in dark robes fighting amid trees and hills, and a designer might take from them the dynamic diagonal composition of crowded combat, the framed panels with calligraphic title cartouches, and the dense hatched textures of night-time landscapes.

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