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[絵本] 〔１７〕 慶安太平記

牧金之助 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1886 · 牧金之助 · 2 pictures

This is an ehon, a Japanese picture book, published in 1886 by Maki Kinnosuke with illustrations by Umedo Kunimasa, issued in Japan for a general readership. The first picture shows a half-length warrior in a dark robe with a sword in the foreground, with a second figure behind him, the cover-style title panel in kanji beside them. The second picture is a wide scene of several men in patterned robes fighting on a wooden bridge at night, with dark hills behind and a standing samurai with a long sword at right, drawn in bold black-and-white woodblock line. A designer could take the strong black silhouettes, dense patterned textiles, and tense cropped staging of the action as models for dramatic graphic 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