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荒川藤兵衛 編 · 1891 · 荒川藤兵衛 · 11 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1891 by Arakawa Tōbei, compiled as a volume of the life of the warlord Katō Kiyomasa for a popular readership. The four spreads show armoured samurai in battle scenes, with dark, heavily inked blocks and facing-page compositions framed by Japanese text columns. A designer might take the bold black-and-white contrast, the snowy and nocturnal landscapes, and the dramatic diagonal poses of the warriors as compositional models.

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