[絵本] 〔２〕日本怪力伝上

竹内栄久編, 梅堂国政画 · 1884 · 小森宗次郎 · 21 pictures

This Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book, 'Nihon Kairyoku-den' (Tales of Japanese Strongmen), vol. 1, was compiled by Takeuchi Eiku and illustrated by Umedo Kunimasa, published in Tokyo in 1884 by Komori Sojiro for a general readership of popular ehon. The pictures show warriors and strongmen in bold black-line outlines with dense kana columns of text, and a designer might take their heroic poses, flowing robes, and tightly packed text-and-image layouts as models for dynamic action composition.

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