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牧金之助 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1886 · 牧金之助 · 6 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1886 by Maki Kinnosuke, with illustrations by Umedō Kunimasa, telling the life of the samurai Katō Kiyomasa for a general popular readership. The pictures are bold black-and-white woodblock-style prints mixing dramatic action scenes with text panels in vertical Japanese script, offering a designer strong graphic contrast, large dark silhouettes of patterned robes, and dynamic diagonal compositions.

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